- Get Involved February 26, 2005 - May 15, 2005 Museum: Sackler
Gallery Location: Mezzanines 1-2, East Galleries 1-5 This
exhibition explores the role of games as social and cultural
activities in the diverse societies of pre-modern Asia through
games, paintings, prints, and decorative art. On view are 166
works of art, including game sets dating from the 12th to 19th
centuries, Persian and Indian court paintings and illuminated
manuscripts of the 16th to 18th centuries, and Chinese and
Japanese scroll paintings, screens, ceramic, and decorative
arts. It also highlights Asia as the world's oldest and richest
source of many games -- chess, backgammon, Parcheesi, Ludo,
Chutes and Ladders, and playing cards -- as well as such sports
as polo and field hockey. In addition, there is a Hands-on Play
Zone where some examples of the games on view can be played (ask
at the information desk for dates and times).