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The Lost Museum<\/em> is an online historical game built between 2000-2005 through a collaboration between the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media<\/a> at George Mason Univeristy and the American Social History Project<\/a> at City University of New York. The game guides users through an immersive, 3-D re-creation of P.T. Barnum's American Museum. In 1865, Barnum's museum was burned down and the crime went unsolved. Players of The Lost Museum<\/em> are asked to investigate potential arson suspects as they travel through four rooms in the museum and consult various sources in a historical database. By attempting to solve the mystery, players gain a better understanding of the social, poltiical, and cultural landscape of 19th century life.<\/p>\r\n

The Lost Museum<\/em> was part of a moment in the late-1990s and early-2000s when new media, particularly in the form of CD-ROMs and the World Wide Web, made possible new and creative forms of historical storytelling. This exhibit explores the imagining, funding, and building of The Lost Museum<\/em>, and considers the role of historical gaming in the digital humanities today.<\/p>\r\n

This project owes much to a compilation of publicity for and reflections about The Lost Museum<\/em> that can be found on this page<\/a>. The holes that couldn't be filled by those sources were filled by Josh Brown<\/a>, executive producer of the project, who shared with me his time and insight into the development of The Lost Museum.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Play the game here<\/a>, or continue to the first section of this exhibit, Imagining The Lost Museum<\/a>.<\/p>","credits":"Jessica Dauterive","featured":0,"public":1,"theme":"neatscape","theme_options":"a:1:{s:6:\"Berlin\";a:5:{s:12:\"header_image\";N;s:11:\"footer_text\";s:0:\"\";s:24:\"display_footer_copyright\";s:1:\"0\";s:19:\"use_advanced_search\";s:1:\"1\";s:4:\"logo\";N;}}","slug":"the-lost-museum","added":"2016-09-28 21:39:16","modified":"2016-10-24 14:51:55","owner_id":97,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":null,"id":9},"item":{"item_type_id":null,"collection_id":null,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2016-09-29 12:15:42","modified":"2016-10-24 14:52:49","owner_id":97,"id":503}}