This art museum is challenging the way people typically visit museums.
Instead of just browsing, the WNDR Museum in Boston not only lets guests look around, but touch and play with just about anything inside.
The immersive experience houses 20 art exhibits that visitors can interact with. From screens that activate colorful imagery, to listening to voice recordings on old-fashioned telephones, all your senses are a part of the experience.
Take a look inside the museum below.
One exhibit named INSIDEOUT lets guests experience an intense storm using lights, strobes and noises.
The attraction is an “immersive 360-degree video, light and sound experience based on childhood memories of artist Leigh Sachwitz, who often experienced thunderstorms in a Glasgow garden shed. Leigh was inspired by those moments within Scottish weather where even phases of rain and sunshine can be experienced together within 20 minutes,” WNDR’s website said.
At the exhibit, guests will see flashing lights, rain drops, heavy showers and lightning. After the storm experience, a warm light shines through the room.
Guests can also test out their hearing skills with the Magnetic Symphony experience.
The exhibit is a take on “the classic tin can telephone.” The sculptures of wires are split up into 10 sections, each with a different sound programmed. Using an electromagnetic receiver at the bottom of each can, you can hear sounds by holding the can up against your ear.
If you want to confuse your taste buds, guests can also head to the miracle berry tasting station.
At this stand, you can eat a freeze-dried miracle berry, a fruit that makes sour foods taste sweet. After dissolving the berry on your tongue, guests will be able to eat a sour gummy candy and a lemon wedge, only to find that the sour foods actually taste sweet.
On the way out, guests can leave a photo of themselves at the museum. If they want to, guests can get a high-resolution photo taken of their iris, which gets added to the museum’s collection.
The WNDR Museum is located at 500 Washington St. in Boston. It is open Sunday-Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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