The Museum of Illusions opened in September near Chelsea Market. There are others throughout the world. Here’s our Review Museum of Illusions in New York City!
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The museum is two floors and relatively small, though with about 70 exhibits (an exhibit could be a room or one picture) that you can touch and are interactive. I took my teens, and was in good company with a variety of ages, from babies to bubbies.
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The museum has several rooms you can enter, with immersible illusions. One of our favorite rooms was the tilted room, which has a tilted floor, making you feel like you’re moving, even though you can be standing still.
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They have some other fun things on the first floor like the much photographed deconstructed chair that looks like it’s a solid chair, but it is in multiple parts spaced out over the floor.
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Once you see it in person, it’s hard to unsee it in photos, though when I showed friends, all they saw was a chair.
We had fun looking at the infinite ceiling and floor tunnel, and the corner where you can play 6 person cards with yourself, thanks to mirrors. A 2-sided kaleidoscope allows you to be the subject (see above). There are puzzles and wall illusions on the first floor as well as holograms. A mirrored room allows you to see yourself in infinity. Having been to the Mirror Maze at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, this room was not exciting.
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Upstairs are the most Instagrammable moments – including a room that’s sideways – it was a bit hard to figure out the best way to photograph it!
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There’s also a fun room where you serve your head on a platter.
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The museum was fun for us, and seemed more like an extended exhibit than an entire museum. But it was done well.
Where: The Museum of Illusions is at 77 8th Avenue (at 14th). Their hours are extensive, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day (check hours to be sure before going). Try to go at an off time, like first thing in the morning, before it gets crowded.
Tickets: Tickets are $19/adult, $17/student (14-22), $15/child (6-13) and $53/family (2 adults, 2 kids).
How long will I spend at the Museum of Illusions: The museum website says you’ll spend 1-2 hours there. That’s probably about right. We spent 45 minutes walking through, taking our time, and another 15-30 minutes playing with the wooden puzzles in the gift shop (they have some upstairs in the gallery too). It’s not a large museum.
Disclosure: The museum provided us with tickets in order to write this review Museum of Illusions in New York City. All opinions are my own.