Museum News

October 19, 2021

The Strong partners with WeGo Foundation to allow hospitalized children robotic access to the museum.

October 12, 2021

Game enthusiasts and researchers alike can now dive into the creative processes and thinking of legendary game designer Sid Sackson through a new online portal from The Strong.

October 7, 2021

The Strong is climbing into the realm of adventure play and building an all-new high ropes course—Skyline Climb—slated to open November 26, 2021.

September 7, 2021

KidsOutandAbout names The Strong the top spot to take kids in the Rochester region.

June 21, 2021

Ed Smith, an engineer who worked on the APF MP-1000 (1978) video game console and Imagination Machine (1979), tours the musuem’s video game collections. 

June 17, 2021

Fellowship recipient Neil Lerner from Davidson College in North Carolina visits The Strong to research the sounds of pinball machines. 

December 18, 2019

The Louis S. and Molly B. Wolk Foundation has pledged $500,000 to benefit Powered by Play: A Campaign for The Strong. In acknowledgment of the gift, the museum will name the new admission area—planned to be included in a new state-of-the-art welcome atrium—the Wolk Admission Area.

November 13, 2019

Paychex, Inc. donates $250,000 to benefit Powered by Play: A Campaign for The Strong. In honor of the gift and Paychex’s ongoing museum support, The Strong renames its recently renovated 290-seat auditorium the Paychex Theater.

October 11, 2019

The Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Foundation donate $100,000 to Powered by Play: A Campaign for The Strong to help build three specially designed video game preservation labs as part of the museum’s planned 90,000-square-foot expansion. The labs will provide the equipment and technology necessary to grow and care for The Strong’s world-class electronic games collections and support the work of researchers, faculty, and students from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).