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The Blizzard Museum is a dedicated space in the main building on Blizzard's Irvine Campus, where numerous works of art by the Blizzard artists are displayed. These pieces are real paintings, as well as digital art blown up to giant size. The Blizzard Museum has a full time curator who cycles in new pieces and keeps rotating the art on display throughout the year.
The museum also houses some of the art exhibits created for display at [[BlizzCon]] and other gaming shows, including life-size statues of [[Starcraft Ghost]], along with various characters and monsters from [[World of Warcraft]]. Besides artworks, the museum holds other items of historical interest and keepsakes, such as special edition merchandise, game launch event souveniors, the original letter and $15,000 loan [[Mike Morhaime]] used to start [[Silicone and Synapse]] (which grew into [[Blizzard Entertainment]]), merchandise, awards their games have won, and much more.
Blizzard sets up smaller versions of their museum at various shows and public events, including in museums[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/laguna-art-museum-vip-benefit-dinner-blizzcon-ticket-and-more]. This occurs every year at Blizzcon, as well as at Blizzard's WWI events,[http://kotaku.com/5020630/blizzard-worldwide-invitational-the-blizzard-museum-show-diablo-3-concept-art] and the Blizzcon museum has debuted numerous piece of Diablo III artwork long before (if ever) they showed up online in digital form.
* [[Flux]] has taken photos of all the new Diablo III art from the Blizzcon Museum at the last three BlizzCons.
** [Nine new piece in 2008.]
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** [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/new-monster-arts-from-blizzcon-2010/ Just a few new pieces in 2010].
==Blizzard's Irvine Museum==
The Blizzard museum occupies a space near the central lobby in their Irvine Campus, and is one of the first stops for most visitors to their offices. Numerous members of the media have written about their tours through this area, and there are countless pictures and videos online.
Since the artwork displayed in the museum is changed regularly, photo tours from different dates will show different artwork.
* IGN's Jessica Talbot provides [http://www.sk-gaming.com/video/4827-Blizzards_museum_tour_with_IGN a video tour of the museum] shortly after it opened in 2008.
* SC Legacy [http://sclegacy.com/feature/3-events/1022-the-blizzard-museum posted numerous photos from the museum] in June 2011].
* Diablo.IncGamers.com [http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/518 hosts a larger gallery of photos from Blizzard's Irvine offices] including numerous shots from the museum.
The best view to date came from a Chinese Starcraft site, who shot the video below in May 2011.
<youtube>ljMbZzyZ7KM</youtube>
The museum also houses some of the art exhibits created for display at [[BlizzCon]] and other gaming shows, including life-size statues of [[Starcraft Ghost]], along with various characters and monsters from [[World of Warcraft]]. Besides artworks, the museum holds other items of historical interest and keepsakes, such as special edition merchandise, game launch event souveniors, the original letter and $15,000 loan [[Mike Morhaime]] used to start [[Silicone and Synapse]] (which grew into [[Blizzard Entertainment]]), merchandise, awards their games have won, and much more.
Blizzard sets up smaller versions of their museum at various shows and public events, including in museums[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/laguna-art-museum-vip-benefit-dinner-blizzcon-ticket-and-more]. This occurs every year at Blizzcon, as well as at Blizzard's WWI events,[http://kotaku.com/5020630/blizzard-worldwide-invitational-the-blizzard-museum-show-diablo-3-concept-art] and the Blizzcon museum has debuted numerous piece of Diablo III artwork long before (if ever) they showed up online in digital form.
* [[Flux]] has taken photos of all the new Diablo III art from the Blizzcon Museum at the last three BlizzCons.
** [Nine new piece in 2008.]
** [ sss
** [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/new-monster-arts-from-blizzcon-2010/ Just a few new pieces in 2010].
==Blizzard's Irvine Museum==
The Blizzard museum occupies a space near the central lobby in their Irvine Campus, and is one of the first stops for most visitors to their offices. Numerous members of the media have written about their tours through this area, and there are countless pictures and videos online.
Since the artwork displayed in the museum is changed regularly, photo tours from different dates will show different artwork.
* IGN's Jessica Talbot provides [http://www.sk-gaming.com/video/4827-Blizzards_museum_tour_with_IGN a video tour of the museum] shortly after it opened in 2008.
* SC Legacy [http://sclegacy.com/feature/3-events/1022-the-blizzard-museum posted numerous photos from the museum] in June 2011].
* Diablo.IncGamers.com [http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/518 hosts a larger gallery of photos from Blizzard's Irvine offices] including numerous shots from the museum.
The best view to date came from a Chinese Starcraft site, who shot the video below in May 2011.
<youtube>ljMbZzyZ7KM</youtube>
