The MAGIC TeV gamma-ray telescopes have devoted several hundreds hour of
observation time in about a decade, to hunt for particle dark matter indirect
signatures in gamma rays, from various candidate targets of interest in the
sky: the galactic center, satellite galaxies, galaxy clusters and unidentified
objects in other bands. Despite the effort, no hints are present in MAGIC data.
These observation are nevertheless not unusable. MAGIC indeed derived the most
robust upper limits in the TeV range than any other instrument. These results,
for the time being, only mildly constrain some classic dark matter models, but
are of use in the construction of dark matter models for the next searches,
that consider also the negative results from accelerator and direct-detection
experiments. In the contribution, we discuss and review MAGIC results, putting
them into context, and in perspective with the next generation of ground-based
Cherenkov telescopes. We will briefly inform about future MAGIC projects
regarding dark matter searches.Comment: XXV ECRS 2016 Proceedings - eConf C16-09-04.
