The European Federation of Game Archives Museums and Preservation Projects grows faster and faster since 2025. Now, Italian Structura has joined. Last month, the Wroclaw Museum of Games and Computers of the Past Era came into the fold.
Structura, the recently founded Italian cultural association based in Rome dedicated to the research, preservation, promotion, and critical interpretation of video games and interactive arts as cultural heritage, has become the 32nd member of the European Federation of Game Archives Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP).
Structura is founded by EFGAMP co-founder Marco Accordi Rickards, director of Italy’s first video game museum Vigamus.
Recently, EFGAMP has published a strong influx of new members: In February, the Museum of Games and Computers of the Past Era Wroclaw has joined. In January, EFGAMP announced unprecedented membership growth in 2025, with Video Game Culture (DE), HI-SCORE (DE), Video Game History Museum (HR), IVIPRO – Italian Videogame Program (IT) and Umbra Dynamics (UK) joining over the year.
Rickards: “I founded Structura to contribute to a necessary shift in how we understand and preserve video games. Too often, they are still treated as products rather than as cultural works. Structura was created to work on that gap, developing frameworks where interactive works can be studied, preserved and interpreted with the same depth and responsibility we reserve for other forms of cultural heritage. Joining EFGAMP is therefore a natural step. It means strengthening a shared European effort to give structure, continuity and long-term vision to the preservation of our interactive culture.”
Andreas Lange, COO of EFGAMP, says: “In recent months, EFGAMP has gained many new members from numerous newly founded organizations that represent the broad spectrum of stakeholders in the field of video game cultural heritage. Although Structura was also founded only recently, it represents a second wave of institutional development. It brings extensive experience and organizational resources to the field, which will help make the community’s efforts even more effective and sustainable.”
