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¿Question #914?
cktjharris: You are opening a game museum. What will your first exhibition be?

Born-of-Ashes: Games through history
Woelf: A copy (or reproduction) of the oldest known board game in existence.
Jatoha: The Art of the Game and I would show lovely game art
Toc13: Go
Electric Joe: Chess.
Narl: Pandemic! and other QWG games.
Blott: Chess
Squigherder: Checkers
vandemonium: The Wit and Wisdom of MisterCranky.
Capt O: monopoly
aleo09: an old game
puffinge: Settlers
Numskull: Cavemen burning Monopoly.
Boot2daHead: Dice. Old ones. Made from bone or stone.
holepuncher: gigantic stone meeples
hancock.tom: Probably a go board or mancala. The oldest game I could get my hands on. I'd quickly move on to the 20th century stuff
Patticus: Go
DHEK: Wild, wacky and bizzare games introduced in gaming history. This will draw in even the crowds of non-gamers!
ACK ACK: Mancala
Tegre: PONG! (oh...board game...probably Chess or Go)
eddyspaghetti: Old dice. Bone, ivory, wood, etc.
jnycash81: the ticket desk
daveroswell: A gigantic battling tops game
Cut & Space: Chess
Langoroth: Settlers
martin: Games from Sid Sackson
Chris Page: "The Art in Monopoly"
mrspank: Busen Memo.
e.c.r.: pawns through the ages
bigbadsteve: go
LemonyFresh: The old abstracts, for chronology sake.
brainrob: A burning monopoly board
m:cafe: If you don't say "Go" you're a twit.
Tushratta: The social history of Chutes and Ladders.
xscape: historic games
dietevil: It wouldn't be an exhibition, it would be a place for massive open gaming!
Agrajag: Analysis of the the Addicted Gamer.
MochaKimono: Naked Twister, but it'll cost extra.
xlorp: Hide and Seek
motoyugota: All of the games that brought us to where we are now, that gamers seem to despise. I'd start with Monopoly and Risk, just to piss off the elitists.
consolewa: It would probably have something to do with prehistoric sexuality/loveplay.
skrutsch: Meeples.
molitor4: BGG Interactive
anson: Monopoly!
CharlieWonka: Chess
sourwyrm: tic tac toe on papyrus
Great Dane: Games?
Ravsitar: Cheapass Games complete collection.
scriptorum: Busen Memo to draw in the crowds.
ssmooth: Card games of many countries throughout the centuries
2amp: i think tactics was the first wargame
Sceadeau: Chess
Lord_Prussian: Mancala/ Pit and Pebble game
ikeafetishist: ancient games.
SwedeLad: Monopoly. You gotta show what extinct, obsolete games look like.
snoozefest: RK life and times
chad56s: The bones of some of the first ever game players.
thoia: Nice question, but difficult. I'd probably try and do a timeline thing. I know the Egyptians had some board games and probalby earlier civ's did too. Try and fabricate any that are impossible to get a hold of. Show games throughout the span of the world.
dakarp: Maybe games from antiquity. A museum is no place for games I would actually want to play...
FullTinCan: Reiner Knizia
Randy Cox: A classic Acquire game
kennyb: a diorama of a bunch of cavemen playing spin the mastadon tibia
AlorielLelyn: Games from ancient times, that have withstood the test of time and still played today.
Tim Synge: Wildlife of the Serengeti.
fellonmyhead: Just like any other museum, I'd start with a "prehistory" exhibit, displaying dinosaurs like Monopoly with attached details stating sometyhing along the lines of "Unbelieveably this game was once played by families worldwide."
stephensj23: Puerto Rico. A modern classic.
Ebonwoulfe: Monopoly. It has to be in there somewhere, it deserves the attention, but I would like to get it out of the way early
spooky612: a tribute to people who developed agoraphoria due to playing boardgames/role playing
sos1: Most interesting looking games I can find, to draw people in.
derk: A huge pile of all the millions of versions of Monopoly produced, along with a history of how the game is responsible for stifling boardgaming in the main stream.
onky: Fantasy related games.
fsumarc: Monopoly: The Extinction. I can dream right?
m_r_tyler: I don't believe in exhibitionism.
Blackwind: Dodge Rock
Linnaeus: Mancala
MisterCranky: Some knucklehead flashing his genitals out on the sidewalk, if luck holds true to form.
CortexBomb: If I was opening the museum it would be to German games, and I would probably put something like Modern Art first
darthcliff: A slot machine.
BobDodgerBlue: Something ancient
sumo: Sports Games, drawing on Michele Montagni and Mike Clifford's collections.
gnomehome: Is this the BGG version of Adel Verplichtet ?
P.O.G.G.: games of the ancient world
geberus: The winners of the SdJ
djlg: History of games
Belash: Monopoly
shumyum: Meeples through history.
phantomvortex: The Trial and Execution of Monopoly and Candyland.
jttm: Tic Tac Toe
chaddyboy_2000: The double reverse sow cow.
cornjob: Aaron Potter's stuffed head. (Just kidding Aaron)
ynnen: The Roots of Gaming >> Mancala, Nine Men's Morris, etc
skelebone: Great American game authors (Sackson, Randolph...)
Ludocrazy: A collection of ancient games
ValJor: The history of boardgaming, from ancient Egypt to the Space Age
CDRodeffer: Senat
Shakar: The presence of board gaming in the society. From the stone age till now.