Museum of Illusions, Interactive science museum in Monastiraki, Greece.
The Museum of Illusions in Athens is a two-floor museum in the Monastiraki neighborhood, where each room is filled with optical tricks and visual experiments. A puzzle section and a shop are also part of the space.
The building was used as an inn in the 1800s before it was converted into the museum in 2018. The change brought a new function to a structure that had already served the neighborhood for well over a century.
The rooms are designed so that visitors can step into the illusions rather than just look at them. This makes the experience more physical than a typical museum visit, as you become part of what you see.
The museum is open every day, which makes it easy to fit into a visit to central Athens. The rooms are compact, so most visitors can go through the whole space in one to two hours.
One of the rooms contains an Ames room, a specially built space where two people of the same height appear to be completely different sizes depending on where they stand. The effect works because the room is built with a distorted shape that looks normal from a single fixed viewpoint.
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