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Jennifer Challenor, Lecturer of Games Art, Staffordshire University

Fortnite’s new in-game Holocaust museum shows us a virtual future for education

A player in Fortnite visiting the Holocaust museum and learning about the Jews of Tunisia. Luc Bernard

If you’ve played Fortnite, you’ll probably know it as a battle royale game in which you fight it out with around 100 other players until there is only one left standing. And you might be surprised to hear the game has just launched a new experience for players: a Holocaust museum.

Called Voices of The Forgotten, the museum serves as a virtual educational experience enabling players to learn about the history of the Holocaust. Spread across two floors, the museum contains photographs and details of the Holocaust, events that occurred during it, and historical figures from the era with their stories documented for all to see.

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