{"id":122675,"date":"2020-12-30T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/blathers_finally_gets_some_recognition_in_2020s_best_video_game_museums"},"modified":"2020-12-30T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:00:00","slug":"blathers-finally-gets-some-recognition-in-2020s-best-video-game-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/30\/blathers-finally-gets-some-recognition-in-2020s-best-video-game-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Blathers Finally Gets Some Recognition In 2020&#8217;s Best Video Game Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/55ef06a25731b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/55ef06a25731b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/55ef06a25731b\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s the GOTY list we&#8217;ve all been waiting for: the best video game museums of 2020! Created by YouTube channel, The MinnMax Show, the shortlist includes <strong>The Last of Us Part II<\/strong>, the <strong>Final Fantasy VII Remake<\/strong>, <strong>Spider-Man: Miles Morales<\/strong>, and our personal favourite, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong> museum, curated and single-handedly run by our beloved Blathers the owl.<\/p>\n<p>PETA might not be happy with Blathers&#8217; treatment of animals, since they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/peta_isnt_happy_with_animal_crossings_blathers_or_his_fish-trapping_museum\">&#8216;cancelled&#8217; him earlier this year<\/a>, but it turns out that people who actually know about museums think that the bird-nerd has done a great job. There&#8217;s even the potential for museum-ception, if you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/your_animal_crossing_island_could_be_in_a_museum_as_part_of_a_covid-19_exhibit\">enter your island into the National Videogame Museum&#8217;s database<\/a>!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Blathers does get some criticism from Kevin Ramler (interim director of the Wyoming State Museum), who says that the T-Rex and Stegosaurus shouldn&#8217;t be placed together, since they &#8220;lived further apart in time than we lived from the T-Rex&#8221;, and also from Cynthia Jones (general manager of innovation experiences at the Henry Ford Museum) who says that the curators shouldn&#8217;t fall asleep at their posts. HE&#8217;S A NOCTURNAL ANIMAL, LADY! He can&#8217;t help it!<\/p>\n<p>However, the curator of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Margaret Weitekamp, praised the museum&#8217;s &#8220;floor treatment&#8221; in the dinosaur exhibit, which plays with the idea of a family tree to make the dino room both educational <em>and<\/em> super pretty. She also loved the use of information labels, noting how challenging it is to fit enough text on a label to explain things like the provenance, importance, and detail of an object.<\/p>\n<p>Incredible to think that all this started as a tiny little tent on our islands. Great job, Blathers! Er&#8230; can someone wake him up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the GOTY list we&#8217;ve all been waiting for: the best video game museums of 2020! 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