This year the Board Game Studies Colloquium will be held in Chemnitz (Saxony, Germany), which is the actual European Capital of Culture, in cooperation with the Europäische Spielesammler Gilde (European Game Collectors Guild).

Its members, who own valuable private collections of games, board games, and playing cards, have been taking part in the Board Game Studies for decades, and their network includes the major associations, museums, and archives of Austria and Germany devoted to the preservation and promotion of board games as cultural heritage.

It includes the Game Archive of Nurnberg, where the Board Game Studies 2016 took place, and among its members are Tom Werneck and Bruce Whitehill, who remarkably contributed to the promotion and dissemination of the activities of the Board Game Studies Colloquium.