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Find out if you have what it takes to survive the Durham's exhibit "American Adventure"

The Durham Museum’s newest exhibit American Adventure is

staged as a maze, where you have to make a series of choices as one of the original Jamestown settlers.

  

Jessica Brummer, Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Durham, says as you wind your way through the maze, the goal is to make it past more than two dozen tests spread out over four seasons. 

Of the 104 colonists who sailed from England to Jamestown, Virginia, only 38 survived the year. 

Brummer says this exhibit blends historical context with an interactive element that allows you to put yourself in the settlers’ shoes and make your own choices to see if your fate would be different if you were one of them.

"Making choices for your health, so what kind of foods are you going to choose to eat?  Are you going to choose to build a shelter or go find water?  All of those sort of life choices are interactive stations within the exhibit. There’s a rock climbing wall.  There’s a place where you have to decide what kind of fish you’re going to catch.  Those sorts of things.”

Brummer says in addition to the maze, visitors can also view actual items uncovered from the original James Fort of Historical Jamestown.

American Adventure is on display through July 29th.  For more information, the website is DurhamMuseum.org.