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Your eyes may deceive you at the newly opened Museum of Illusions, but that just means you’re getting your money’s worth.
The Croation import, with 19 locations around the world, plays with your expectations by challenging your perspectives of the objects and people around you throughout its 70 Instagram-worthy rooms and exhibits. Imagine touching a “hot” grill and walking away unscathed — or “shrinking” in a room that uses its dimensions to confuse your understanding of your own physicality.
“It’s about visitors losing themselves, climbing on the walls,” museum CEO Roko Živković says. “The museum is a 21st-century concept. I always loved National Geographic and brain games and I wanted to do it for people to experience something really different.”
The Museum of Illusions is housed in a grand old bank building at 77 Eighth Ave. and is open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
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Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
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