WTF!? This is why I love French Freedom Fries.  Would you not expect something like this to be built in the U.S. of A. first?  I mean the whole idea of video games was created by the U.S.  I would not have been surprised if a country like Japan created a museum, because of their huge contributions to the genre; but France, COME ON!  But it seems they outflanked and scooped us on this idea.

A group calling themselves MO5, www.mo5.com, are planning this museum and it looks like they are coming to the table in the most correct fashion.  It will be called, “National Institute of Digital Sciences”  and will be a safehouse for retrogaming artifacts.  They want to display and preserve as many old systems as they can get their hands on.  Allowing museum visitors to play on the consoles will also be an important role in the program; they want the museum to become interactive.  Philippe Dubois,an MO5 spokesman, stated to the BBC:

We have a collection of more than 30,000 parts and 1500 different game machines – ranging from arcades to home consoles – which continues to grow.
In France we have a rich culture of arts, painting, literature and cinema, but we are in danger of losing our inheritance of video game history,” he added.

So having game displays in the museum should not be a problem.  The only hurdle I see at this time, in creating a place like this,  for these guys is the maintenance plan to fix all these machines to OEM standards so people may play them.  It may turn into something bad where machines will always broken and not enough technicians will be onsite to fix them and the visitors will be bored out of the place.

The Thomson MO5 was introduced to France in 1984.  I am guessing this is why they christened their group MO5.  Remember these guys are French. So their website will all be in French. If you look them up in Google, you can use the Google translate tool to translate what they have to say about the museum and the retrogaming genre.