Gallery

Playing Games

One of the best ways to pass the time is by playing games, by yourself or with friends! Games like chess, checkers, card games and board games are great to play when you're stuck inside. Discover historical games and the people who played them in this gallery.

Curated by Published gallery

33 items

The

Desconegut

Girona City Council

Just to Quiet Little Game Justification of the title, registered title American Stereoscop…

Desconegut

Girona City Council

Knikkerende jongens

Rijksmuseum

De negen oude mannen uit Kôzan

Rijksmuseum

Het spel tegen de monniken, ca. 1570

Rijksmuseum

Japanse kinderen spelen een spel

Rijksmuseum

Mannen spelen spel aan tafeltje, uit serie India S.M.H.

Gooi and Vecht Historic

KAARTSPELERS VOLENDAM

onbekend

Zuiderzee Museum

[Inside a cafe]

Foto Lux

Girona City Council

Two men are sitting outside a cottage playing a game of draughts, a woman is standing in t…

Wellcome Collection

Upstairs at a brothel: a maid combs out a hairpiece while guests play the finger game "ken…

Wellcome Collection

Seated at a card table are Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with Lord Normanby and Daniel …

John Doyle

Wellcome Collection

A man playing go (a board game), watched by two companions. Right leaf of triptych. (Left …

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Wellcome Collection

Célbalövés játékgépen

Bauer Sándor, fényképész

Fortepan

[Secretary General of the Movement]

Sans Prats, Narcís

Girona City Council

print (colour woodcut): "Battledore and Shuttlecock"

Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

game: Decimal Shopping

Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

Two Buddhist monks, playing "chess" by John Thomson

J. Thomson

Wellcome Collection

Men are playing a game with discs in a woodland clearing. Etching after Eugéne Henri Mille…

Wellcome Collection

Boer War: two wounded men, one Boer and one British, playing at cards in a hospital ward a…

G. B.

Wellcome Collection

A man playing go (a board game)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Wellcome Collection

Men sitting around a table playing a game of cards. Engraving by C. Gaucher after G. Van T…

Wellcome Collection

Children are playing a game with one of them being pulled along on a trolley with ribbons.…

Wellcome Collection

A family playing a game of cards on a drum; one man is wearing part of a suit of armour, t…

Wellcome Collection

Two British Tommies have an impromptu game of nap among the ruins of a shattered town

National Library of Scotland

American & British troops in France enjoying a game of cards

National Library of Scotland

Twee jongens en een meisje die aan tafel een spel spelen

Rijksmuseum

Falbalas et Fanfreluches: Almanach des Modes Présentes, Passées et Future pour 1922: Le Je…

Rijksmuseum

Volendam.

onbekend

Zuiderzee Museum

Death Playing Chess

Swedish History Museum

print (colour woodcut): ["Children Playing with Shells"]

Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

Men of the K.O.Y.L.I. playing cards

National Library of Scotland

In the few spare moments when not pounding the Boche our gunners settle down to a game of …

National Library of Scotland