We're thrilled to bring you this visionary extract from Museums At Play (edited by Katy Beale). 

The chapter's titled Hunting for the Beauty of Game Design in a Museum’s Objects and it's written by Toby Barnes and David Hayward of Mudlark, the fine folks who also designed the graphic on the book's cover.

"... A few years ago I had a glimpse of what museums could be. It was a bizarre and unexpected combination of video game level design knowledge, awareness of technology, and doing something uncharacteristic: being a tourist..."

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