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Museum of Ice Cream in NYC is like a Willy Wonka-inspired dream world

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At the Museum of Ice Cream, there’s a pool filled with rainbow “sprinkles.” Photo Credit: Georgia Kral
  • The first room you enter is called The Cone Room, and one wall is lined in waffle cones. Yum.
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  • The Museum of Ice Cream, like most museums, takes history very seriously. One
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  • What is a sundae without whipped cream? Common objects were displayed in a manner consistent with modern art galleries.
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  • Another interactive aspect of the museum is this golden sundae dish. Each guest gets the chance to scoop ice cream into it. How does it stay frozen? An enzyme is added that keeps it from melting.
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  • There's a room dedicated to chocolate with sweets to sample and even a fountain.
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  • The museum says this is the world's
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  • They may look like tasty, sugary bites that will explode with flavor in your mouth, but they're not. They feel like little plastic pieces, though the exact material is something the museum will not disclose.
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  • There are rules. We love the sixth rule, obviously.
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  • Another room in the Museum of Ice Cream features an interactive installation devoted to the science of taste. Guests first take a miracle berry tablet and suck on it until it dissolves. The miracle berry, an actual fruit called dulcificum, makes sour foods taste sweet. After the tablet, you eat the ice cream, pictured. We tried it and the lemon was not sour.
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  • In addition to the pool, there's also an ice cream scooper seesaw and an ice cream sandwich swing. Grab a friend and go for a ride!
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  • Where all your dreams (of eating delicious, cool ice cream and wading through non-edible sprinkles in a
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A sensory experience awaits at the Museum of Ice Cream.

The sold-out Meatpacking District pop-up, open until Sept. 4, features a trippy chocolate room, a sprinkle-filled pool and helium balloons made of sugar. Naturally, the museum offers up ice cream from the likes of Oddfellows and Chinatown Ice Cream Factory.

Co-founder Maryellis Bunn said the museum was a childhood dream that turned into a reality. It definitely feels a little like a dream, indeed.

Bunn told amNY.com there are no plans to take the museum on the road — yet.

“Everyone’s super excited about it,” she said. “After this, we can evaluate what the next steps are.

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