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Find out more about our next Home Educator Visit Day on Thursday 10 September!

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The Story Arcade

Story Arcade
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  • Opening Times

    The Story Arcade is included within an all-day ticket for the Galleries.

    The Galleries are open daily to the public during state school holidays and from Tuesday to Sunday during term time.

    Last entry to the Galleries is one hour before closing time.

  • Families
  • £14.50-£16.00 included as part of a Galleries ticket.

Level up your imagination in our brand-new gallery exploring the world of gaming and storytelling!

Embark on a pixelated adventure through the world of gaming and storytelling.

See the world through the eyes of a cat, battle aliens and monsters, or navigate a post-apocalyptic flooded city with a crew in tow!

From early plot-driven classics to the vast, open-world adventures of today’s gaming legends, The Story Arcade explores the impact of video games on how we tell stories, charting landmark moments in gaming history and showing how evolving storytelling techniques let players experience new emotional, social, cultural, and historical perspectives.

With custom-built arcade machines, dressing up, a Side-Quest trail, board games, and pixel-themed crafts and activities — there’s plenty on offer for everyone.

The Story Arcade also features games created by young designers from The Story Museum’s Digital Dreamers programme. Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, these budding game-makers worked with industry professionals in partnership with Mind Jam, to select stories from The Story Museum’s Digital 1001 Collection, and reimagined them as video games.

Showcasing one of today’s most popular storytelling forms in a positive, family-friendly way, The Story Arcade invites children and parents to play, learn, and imagine together. It celebrates a powerful creative force that continues to reshape how we share and experience stories in the digital age.

The Story Arcade is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Image credits:
Lost Words: Beyond the Page image courtesy of Sketchbook Games
Never Alone image courtesy of E-Line Media

  • Opening Times

    The Story Arcade is included within an all-day ticket for the Galleries.

    The Galleries are open daily to the public during state school holidays and from Tuesday to Sunday during term time.

    Last entry to the Galleries is one hour before closing time.

  • Families
  • £14.50-£16.00 included as part of a Galleries ticket.
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Buy A Story Pass Unlimited entry to The Story Museum’s Galleries annually
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