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How to play in a museum

Some museums create games for visitors to play. In others, if you’re creative and inquisitive, you can make up your own. Find out how a game can give you a different perspective on art and objects.

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How not to play

Here are seven ways to sidestep doing as you’re told in a game. But strangely, they seem to be as much a part of playing as the game itself.

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  • Houses representing an Indian boardgame played with dice. Woodcut by an Indian artist.
  • Soldiers sit around an upturned drum playing a game with dice. Wood engraving by W. Armstrong.
  • A dice bearing the words 'Don't gamble with AIDS' amidst a backdrop bearing the words 'Think!'. Colour lithograph.
  • Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play dice. Engraving by P.F. Basan after M. Österreich after Valentin de Boulogne.
  • A society lunch with patrons playing dice, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by R. Leitner, mid-19th century, after D. Teniers.
  • Dice representing gambling with health; an advertisement for the Genito Urinary Medicine Clinic (GUM) for treatment and advice on sexually transmitted diseases like Aids by The Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland. Colour lithograph.
  • Lord Cochrane and Captain de Beranger, collaborators in a fraudulent manipulation of the Stock Exchange, playing dice while in the stocks. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1814.
  • A man crawls on all fours towards a gambling dice bearing hearts as a glamorous woman holding a bag looks on; with diagrams on how AIDS is not contracted along the bottom; an advertisement for safe sex by the OFfice of Federal Health and Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Birez.
  • A man holding a torch and surrounded by heart-shaped vegetables is standing near a table with dices, pointing to a bunch of dead birds on a hook; representing the month December. Engraving.
  • Discover the versatility of diced bacon / Tesco Stores Limited.
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