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The Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games was a public
board game Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a co ...
museum housed at the
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, in Waterloo,
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. It was established in 1971 as the Museum and Archive of Games, and renamed in 2000 in honour of its founder and first curator. It housed over 5,000 objects and documents related to games. It was administered by the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, and was found within B.C. Matthews Hall, near the north end of the main campus. The museum had both physical and virtual exhibits about a diversity of board games and related objects. The resources of the museum contributed to the university's program in ''Recreation and Leisure Studies''. The University closed the museum in 2009 and transferred the physical collection to the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now known as the
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) however information about the collection, which includes over 5000 objects and a large number of archival documents about games, is still hosted on the University website. There are over 700 web pages of virtual exhibits which includes videos, photographs, diagrams, other graphics, and textual information about games.ELLIOTT AVEDON VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF GAMES Retrieved 2011-02-08.


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History of games The history of games dates to the ancient human past. Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate ima ...
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History of video games The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. '' Spacewar!'' was developed by MIT student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first s ...


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Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games website

Obituary for Elliott Avedon
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