Romans were game birds and that is fully played out at the new exhibition ‘Ludi Romani’ or ‘not child’s play’. Romans were also gamblers, cheaters and developers of intelligent board games. ‘De Steen van Heerlen’, a stone board game, is the showpiece of the new exhibition in Oudenburg. It recently attracted worldwide attention because the University of Louvain-La-Neuve was able to reconstruct the rules of the game thanks to (among other things) AI. You can play the game yourself on a tablet.
Four themes
The traveling exhibition takes you through four themes, each with its own view on games and toys in Roman antiquity. Original finds and carefully crafted replicas form the basis of an interactive exhibition.
The Ludi Romani exhibition runs until July 26 in the Roman Archaeological Museum in Oudenburg. She then travels to the Museum Cultuurforum in Aardenburg and the National Tobacco Museum in Wervik.
