MIAMI — Artwork gallery, science exhibition and twenty first century funhouse, Paradox Museum Miami takes visitors on a tour by way of optical illusions and different enigmas geared for the age of Instagram.
The 11,000-square-foot museum, housed in Miami’s fashionable Wynwood arts and leisure district, options greater than 70 reveals that problem the creativeness, govt director Samantha Impellizeri mentioned.
“It ebbs and flows between periods of highly tactile and interactive exhibit pieces and fully immersive photo opportunities where you yourself become the paradox and walk away with some really fun and unique social media content,” Impellizeri mentioned.
Paradox Museum has greater than a dozen places all through North America, Europe and Asia. The Miami location, which opened in 2022, was the primary in North America, adopted by Las Vegas and New Jersey.
“Each paradox is uniquely tied to its community,” Impellizeri mentioned. “So as you walk throughout the experience, you’ll notice different themes and art installations that directly reflect not only Miami but the Wynwood community specifically.”
Lots of the reveals at Paradox Museum harken again to previous carnival funhouses, just like the mirror maze, the spinning tunnel and the upside-down room. The distinction is that Paradox Museum explains the maths and science behind every phantasm.
“We’re a top field trip destination for pre-K all the way up through college students,” Impellizeri mentioned. “We have a full curriculum of educational activities to do before, during and after the visit to expand upon that educational scope.”
Like every museum, Paradox Museum plans to replace its reveals to maintain guests coming again.
“We’re not going to be the same space in a year to three years from now,” Impellizeri mentioned. “We’ll be engaging with new technology and layering additional discoveries on top of it.”
Paradox Museum Miami launched a brand new Zero Gravity Room this previous fall. Friends step into an enormous, slowly shifting vertical wheel designed to seem like the inside of an area station after inserting their digicam telephones on a spinning mount. The spinning digicam is synced to the spinning wheel, so the video seems to point out the visitors strolling up the wall and ceiling, like one thing out of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Paradox Museum is an element of a big pattern of immersive artwork experiences opening all around the world this previous decade. Examples embody an organization known as Meow Wolf with a number of places within the western United States, in addition to an immersive Van Gogh exhibit that has been touring North America, Europe and Asia since 2017. Superblue Miami opened in 2021, that includes interactive and experiential artwork.
“Immersive experiences around the world are increasing in popularity and popping up more and more,” Impellizeri mentioned. “And it’s exciting to see that this trend of interactive and immersive experiences taking off that allows guests to become part of the art, part of the installation itself.”
Guests usually take 60 to 90 minutes to make by way of method by way of Paradox Museum. Tickets usually price $26 for adults and youths and $20 for kids.
Facundo Ildarraz, 17, and his household got here to Miami from Argentina to catch a cruise and had a couple of days to take a look at the town. Ildarraz mentioned his mother discovered Paradox Museum on-line, and it turned out to be an awesome likelihood to take images.
“I’ve been laughing since I went inside,” Ildarraz mentioned. “It’s really amazing.”
Dennis Speigel, head of a consulting firm known as Worldwide Theme Park Companies, Inc., mentioned immersive experiences are a pure development of location-based leisure, like go-cart tracks, laser tag, paint ball, indoor skydiving, escape rooms and trampoline parks. They’re smaller scale points of interest that take guests a couple of hours to undergo.