The Nic Costa Archive is a collection of coin-operated and amusement arcade trade artefacts, documents, and memorabilia created by artist, and author of Automatic Pleasures and More Automatic Pleasures, Nic Costa.

The archive includes marketing materials, auction catalogues, advertisements, flyers, photographs and slides, documents, interviews, and other artefacts that trace the development of the international (and primarily British) coin-operated and amusement arcade industry from the late 1800s to the 1970s.

The collection consists of:

Mutoscope cards
Photographs of coin-operated machines
Machine patents and instructions
Auction and exhibition catalogues
Trade leaflets
Newspaper cuttings
Research notes
Journals and periodicals

The collection has been catalogued by Nicola Waddington, of Archives Alive along with a team of staff, student and community volunteers. Thanks go to Cam Matthews, Yosselin Claudio Montana, Nadia Davies, Evie Loos-Page, Symona Turkson, Amy Green, Carmel Beatty, Edward and Henry Crowther.