Call to game bugs
When Melissa Rogerson discovered board games she said it was like owning two hotels on Mayfair - exciting and addictive.
Ten
years on, the spare room in her Brunswick East house resembles a toy
shop with about 300 board games from around the world stacked high
enough to form a mini city.
Rogerson will bring her collection into the city this month with a display at the Melbourne Museum.
Community Collections features more than 40 of the most unusual and interesting collections from Victoria.
Each
month a different collection is displayed and past showcases have
included postcards, Kiss memorabilia, frogs, milk cartons, celebrity
dolls, model aircraft, gems and minerals, stockings and Indonesian
textiles.
Melbourne Museum public programs manager Margaret
Griffity said the exhibition gave visitors the chance to have a glimpse
of other people's collecting passions and obsessions.
"Collectors often spend several years finding objects to add to their collections," she said.
"Community Collections gives them the opportunity to share their unique and precious collections with others."
Rogerson
said she could attest to the passions of collecting, having travelled
around the world with husband Fraser McHard to buy unusual,
limited-edition and collectable board games.
Games in Rogerson's collection include Shear Panic, a game about sheep that sold out before a German toy fair opened; Ticket to Ride, where players compete to build train lines across the US; and a game from the 1930s called the Plus and Minus Simple Maths Game.
Rogerson said her family liked interesting games that made players think.
The museum and exhibition is $6 for adults (children and concession card holders free). Call 8341 7777.