Exhibit Opening Celebration: Past Time Pastimes: Vintage Board Games
- Event Date: Thursday, April 5, 2018
- Time: 3:00 pm–5:00 pm (CDT)
- Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
- Cost: Free Admission
On Thursday, April 5, the Spurlock Museum opens the temporary exhibit Past Time Pastimes: Vintage Board Games. The exhibit features games from the collection of local game enthusiast Dan Cermak and is on display through July 8. Join us for a reception and presentations at 4:00 on the history of games and gaming by Dan Cermak, former General Manager of Deep Silver Volition, and David Dubin who teaches game design for the School of Information Sciences at UIUC.
Past Time Pastimes is part of the Playful by Design, Interdisciplinary Game Studies at Illinois Spring Symposium held April 5–7. It is sponsored by the Illinois Project for Research in the Humanities, Spurlock Museum, Illinois Informatics, CU Community FabLab, CITL, and the School for Information Sciences at UIUC.
A symposium schedule (external link) is available on the IPRH Research Cluster's Playful by Design website.
Contact
For further information on this event, contact Beth Watkins at ewatkins@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 265-5485.
All participants are welcome. To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact Brian Cudiamat at cudiamat@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 244-5586.