Museum of the Senses can be found at Bulevardul General Paul Teodorescu, nr. 4, Bucharest, postal code 061346. More understandably, in AFI Cotroceni Mall, on the 2nd floor. The easiest access by public transport is via the M3 metro line to Politehnica station 600 meters away. There are bus, tram and trolleybus stops even closer. You can park your car in the Mall parking lot.
The museum is open daily from 10 am to 10 pm. Admission ticket prices vary not only by adult/child, age of child, but also by day of the week, different family package offers or online purchase. It is best to check the museum's website at https://www.museumofsenses.ro/about/price.
The Museum of the Senses is a nice, interactive museum where you discover your senses, try to explain optical illusions, be part of experiments. Visit the Museum of Senses!
Here you are here to participate! The first attempt is to go through the mirror maze, for which you need to equip yourself with disposable plastic gloves that you get at the entrance desk. The labyrinth is a chain of honeycombs with mirrored walls, some of which are missing mirrors that are actually barriers to progressing to the exit. Once you enter the maze aisle, to avoid the pegs, you use your sense of touch to find the missing walls to pass through. Very cool!
Mirror maze
Mirror maze
Mirror maze
Here, sight is put to work, invited to enjoy color. In a room, beams of light are projected in the direction of which you can interpose yourself to simulate colored shadows of your body parts.
RGB camera
RGB camera
Special mirrors on a passageway distort the bodies of passers-by in a funny or funny way. You can suddenly become very tall, extremely thin or very wide and so on.
Hall with mirrors
Hall with mirrors
Hall with mirrors
The section on optical illusions is particularly interesting, and a few examples are given here as a sample. A cup of coffee seen from two perspectives is either round or square in cross-section, a figurine representing several fish is transformed in a mirror into a butterfly fugur. Drawings with lines and circles make you lose your concentration and even give the impression of movement.
Square or round mug?
Fish or butterflies?
The Infinity Room is actually a collection of mirrors. Once you enter the room you will find yourself multiplied in shimmering mirrors and have a sensation of light or energy flowing through you.
Infinity room
There's a room that looks like a huge, endless hole, like a well. But that's not all. If you look up you'll see the same tunnel continuing upwards. The sensation is that you've arrived in the cosmos, or that you're being pulled into a black hole, actually illuminated.
The infinite tunnel
The Ames room is painted in black and white stripes and has a sloping floor. This combination is designed to make you feel like you've lost your compass.
Ames Room
I described this experiment first seen at the House of Experiments. A bed of nails fixed with the point upward is lowered and raised slightly to the height of the nails. Although many people are frightened into thinking that if they sit on the bed, the nails will hurt them, in reality the entire mass of the body resting on them is distributed over the huge number of nails mounted at small distances from each other, so that a negligible load is placed on each nail. This explains why the nails do not pierce the skin, or even puncture it.
Bed of nails
Are you familiar with the toy kaleidoscopes of the 70s and 90s? It was an eyeglass inside which there were walls of mirrors and several beads that when rotated changed position, generating multiple multiplied figures. The kaleidoscope in the museum works on the same principle, but on a larger scale, and the figure in the kaleidoscope is us. We see ourselves multiplied in a spectacular combination of images.
Kaleidoscope
On a vertical panel are mounted equidistantly, equidistantly, hundreds of movable nails that grip the panel. On one side of the panel you are invited to stick yourself to it and press yourself into the nails behind you with your head, your hands, your feet, your whole body. This will push the nails to the other side of the panel, where the shape of your body will emerge from the nails. Very cool!
Nailed body shape
Museum of the Senses is interesting for visitors of all ages. Of course children will be fascinated. I haven't even described all that you can discover here, so if I've piqued your curiosity, visit the Museum of the Weeds!
Further information can be found on the museum's website at https://www.museumofsenses.ro/
All the best!
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