BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:52@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150718T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150718T160000 DTSTAMP:20150714T204447Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-museum-of-gaming-exhibition/ SUMMARY:Warrington Pyramid & Parr Hall: The Museum of Gaming Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Runs until Saturday 19 September 2015\nFree Admission\n\nFrom ancient board games to retro video games\, what truly defines a great game ?\n\nWarrington Museum &\; Art Gallery’s new exhibition\, The Museum of Gaming\, explores the history of gaming in all its variations.\n\nWhy d o we play games and what makes a good game? A new exhibition about the his tory of gaming opens at Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery on Saturday 1 8 July. The Museum of Gaming exhibition features all manner of games from ancient board games\, to Victorian parlour games and not forgetting\, retr o video games – with some playable examples.\n\nThe exhibition explores how we have evolved to learn through play and how some of the games we sti ll play now make active use of the evolutionary adaptations that we made m ore than 11\,000 years ago. Long before games were mainly used for leisure purposes\, they were used for educational purposes\, for developing milit ary strategy as well as for exploring morality.\n\nIn more recent times ga ming has become a major commercial sector and is a part of many people’s lives. In the 1980s a generation of bedroom coders helped give birth to t he video games industry – something that is enjoying a renaissance now w ith a new generation of games designers. The exhibition will also feature some recent work created as part of Priestley College’s BTEC ED Computer Game Design course. Some of the students have recently been shortlisted f or awards at this year’s Young Game Design BAFTAs.\n\nThe exhibition has been created in collaboration with the Museum of Gaming\, in Lancashire\, which has kindly provided many of the items featured in the display. The Museum of Gaming\, which is in Preston\, currently exists as an archive wh ich aims to illustrate the importance of games in the development of human s and the influence of gaming upon society.\n\nThe Museum of Gaming exhibi tion is on display at Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery from 18 July – 19 September 2015. Admission is free.\n\nThe Museum of Gaming exhibiti on is located in Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery.\nSaturday 18 Jul 20 15 - Saturday 19 Sep 2015\nFree Admission ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2015/07/museum-of-gaming1.jpg LOCATION:Warrington Pyramid & Parr Hall\, Palmyra Square South Cultural Qua rter\, Warrington\, WA1 1BL\, Warrington\, United Kingdom GEO:53.387366;-2.59667 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Palmyra Square South Cultur al Quarter\, Warrington\, WA1 1BL\, Warrington\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RA DIUS=100;X-TITLE=Warrington Pyramid & Parr Hall:geo:53.387366,-2.59667 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR