Our collecting is still ongoing for this project. Have a story about your experience playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons during the pandemic? We want to hear from you!

We’re inviting you to submit your thoughts, feelings and experiences in any way that suits you.

We’d welcome:

  • Diary entries about Animal Crossing
  • Something you’ve written about your experience of Animal Crossing
  • A video tour or screenshots of your island with commentary about events that have taken place
  • A video of you telling us about your experience recorded on your phone
  • Audio file of you talking with your friends about your Animal Crossing experiences
  • Comic strips or other artwork depicting something you experienced in Animal Crossing (please only submit your own work)
  • Copies or screenshots of your Animal Crossing group chat (with permission from all participants)
  • Anything else!

You can submit your file here or get in your with us at animalcrossing@thenvm.org for any questions or help sharing your files!

Conditions of Deposit

By submitting an object for this digital collection you agree to let us hold and reproduce the object in any format the museum requires. 

As a museum we are required to record the providence of our objects including digital objects. Your data will be held securely as part of the object’s record. 

Your submission may be shared with researchers on request for academic and heritage purposes. Your personal information (name and email address) will be removed from any records shared outside of the National Videogame Museum. Any information included in the file itself will remain unedited and will not be anonymised by this process.

You can withdraw your submission from the collection by emailing us and providing the name and email address you used on your submission. We are unable to remove any data used anonymously in any exhibition prior to your withdrawal request.