{"id":23729,"date":"2023-11-08T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=23729"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:49:33","slug":"andrew-burtch-talks-about-the-war-games-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2023\/andrew-burtch-talks-about-the-war-games-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Burtch Talks about the War Games Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Andrew Burtch Talks about the War Games Exhibit\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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The following excerpt is from the article by Noah Leafloor, of the Algonquin Times. The full article, “Explorer: War Games museum exhibit prompts you to consider big questions,” can be found online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 10 years ago, Andrew Burtch<\/a>, a historian who works at Ottawa\u2019s Canadian War Museum had an idea about how to offer something that directly appealed to young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter observing and approaching groups of youth in our galleries discussing arms cases, it occurred to me their point of entry was because of video games like Call of Duty<\/i>,\u201d said Burtch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burtch is the post-1945 historian at the Canadian War Museum, and an adjunct research professor in Carleton University\u2019s history department. He\u2019s done a number of commemorative exhibitions, including one about the anniversary of the Korean War armistice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burtch simmered on the idea for a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, after lots of development \u2013 and pandemic-related delays \u2013 Burtch and co-author Marie-Louise Deruaz saw the War Games<\/span><\/span><\/a> exhibit open on June 9, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople can play video games at home,\u201d said Burtch. \u201cWhat we wanted to do was produce an experience where you couldn\u2019t get on the couch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should you visit?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The War Games exhibit offers five zones of history and play <\/b>made possible by dozens of contributions from the CWM <\/b>and Canadian Museum of History.
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The CWM also received a lot of interesting responses on the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had a sizable amount of visitors and it is one of the more popular exhibits in recent years. Approximately 100,000 people came through between the summer and early fall. A fair number of those lie under the young age demographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following excerpt is from the article by Noah Leafloor, of the Algonquin Times. The full article, “Explorer: War Games museum exhibit prompts you to consider big questions,” can be found online. About 10 years ago, Andrew Burtch, a historian who works at Ottawa\u2019s Canadian War Museum had an idea about how to offer something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-5"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23730,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729\/revisions\/23730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}