{"id":119823,"date":"2023-10-09T11:59:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=119823"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:59:17","slug":"inside-the-paradox-museum-where-nothing-makes-sense-but-all-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/travel\/inside-the-paradox-museum-where-nothing-makes-sense-but-all-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Paradox Museum where &apos;nothing makes sense&apos; but all is real"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Inside the new Las Vegas Paradox Museum, where &#8216;nothing makes sense&#8217; but everything is real &#8211; from an upside down room to a sofa that makes bodies &#8216;go to pieces&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Paradox Museum Las Vegas boasts 90 mind-bending activities to explore<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The attraction &#8211; coming to London soon &#8211; spans 11,000 sq ft\u00a0(1,020 sq m)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Shark expert reveals his dos and don&#8217;ts for avoiding an attack<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fancy having your mind &#8216;tickled&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Then step inside the incredible Paradox Museum on the Las Vegas Strip &#8211; &#8216;where nothing makes sense and yet everything is totally real&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The attraction &#8211; coming to London soon &#8211; spans 11,000 sq ft (1,020 sq m) and boasts 90 mind-twisting and eye-tricking activities and experiences designed to make you question reality and &#8216;experience the impossible&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>One highlight is the Upside Down Room, where &#8216;everything seems to defy gravity \u2013 that is, until guests turn their photos upside down and observe the only thing defying gravity is themselves&#8217;. How does it work? The museum says: &#8216;When rotated 90 degrees, an ordinary room with a few construction tricks plays with guests&#8217; perception of reality.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can also enter the Ambiguous Shapes Room, a &#8216;casino slot machine-themed exhibit&#8217; where objects can be rotated in front of a mirror to appear different from two perspectives. The museum says: &#8216;It is an optical illusion in which the observer&#8217;s mind abruptly changes the perspective of a picture or a shape.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/02\/16\/76065951-12584043-image-a-42_1696259638383.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fancy having your mind &#8216;tickled&#8217;? Then step inside the incredible Paradox Museum on the Las Vegas Strip. Pictured above is the &#8216;paradox sofa&#8217; &#8211; which gives the impression that someone\u2019s body has gone to pieces&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/02\/16\/76065945-12584043-fds-a-43_1696259644753.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/02\/16\/76065947-12584043-sdf-a-44_1696259650291.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>The Paradox Museum &#8211; coming to London soon &#8211; spans 11,000 sq ft (1,020 sq m) and boasts 90 mind-twisting and eye-tricking activities and experiences designed to make you question reality and &#8216;experience the impossible&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the Infinity Well, inspired by Alice in Wonderland, &#8216;false images and deceptive emotions&#8217; in the brain are generated using an infinite series of reflections in an artificially made 40cm hole.<\/p>\n<p>The museum reveals: &#8216;When guests look up at the ceiling, it makes them believe they&#8217;re in the bottom of the well. When guests look down, they may feel as if they are about to fall.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Ames Room, meanwhile, leaves visitors feeling as though they have grown or shrunk in size using distorted perception.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Widely used in TV and movie productions to create special effects, the Ames Room principle includes the floor and ceiling built at an angle to trick the eye,&#8217; the museum told MailOnline Travel. &#8216;Both sides of the room appear to be the same, but the actual shape is a trapezium.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/12\/76065955-12584043-Discover_the_Infinity_Well_pictured_inspired_by_Alice_in_Wonderl-m-1_1696849203043.jpg\" height=\"486\" width=\"632\"><\/p>\n<p>At the Infinity Well, inspired by Alice in Wonderland &#8211; &#8216;when guests look up at the ceiling, it makes them believe they&#8217;re in the bottom of the well, when guests look down, they may feel as if they are about to fall&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/02\/16\/76065953-12584043-image-a-50_1696261033475.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/02\/16\/76077349-12584043-image-a-51_1696261045886.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>LEFT: The Beuchet chair makes anyone sitting on it appear smaller than they actually are. RIGHT:\u00a0The Kaleidoscope room allows guests to create their own patterns using mirrors set in the shape of a three-sided prism<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/12\/76334977-12584043-The_Upside_Down_Room_where_everything_seems_to_defy_gravity_-a-7_1696851727543.jpg\" height=\"365\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Upside Down Room, where &#8216;everything seems to defy gravity&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another interactive exhibit is the Kaleidoscope room, where visitors can create patterns using mirrors set in the shape of a three-sided prism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Inside, the reflection of the objects move and combine with each other in a symmetrical dance forming a constantly changing pattern,&#8217; the museum explains.<\/p>\n<p>The fun continues in the Coloured Shadows Room, where three spotlights feature the primary colours of red, blue and yellow. &#8216;If the spotlights shine with the same intensity, the overlapping beam of light will be white,&#8217; says the museum. &#8216;If a guest blocks one spotlight, they will then experience three different coloured shadows, including yellow, magenta and cyan.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Marc Gregory Tipton, regional sales and marketing manager at the Paradox Museum Las Vegas, said: &#8216;Meaning &#8220;contrary to expectation&#8221; or &#8220;incredible&#8221; in ancient Greek, the word paradox is defined as the opposite of or contradictory to common sense. A first-of-its-kind experience in Las Vegas, Paradox Museum not only provides attention-grabbing, entertaining moments but also leaves visitors in awe as they ponder what they just witnessed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span>Paradox Museum Las Vegas, one of eight around the world, is located at 3767 S Las Vegas Blvd and is open midday to 10pm daily. Tickets cost from \u00a327 ($32) per adult and \u00a324 ($29) per child. Children under three go free. For more information or to book visit <\/span><span>paradoxmuseumlasvegas.com<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/article-12584043\/Inside-new-Las-Vegas-Paradox-Museum-makes-sense-real-upside-room-sofa-makes-bodies-pieces.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the new Las Vegas Paradox Museum, where &#8216;nothing makes sense&#8217; but everything is real &#8211; from an upside down room to a sofa that makes bodies &#8216;go to pieces&#8217; The Paradox Museum Las Vegas boasts 90 mind-bending activities to explore The attraction &#8211; coming to London soon &#8211; spans 11,000 sq ft\u00a0(1,020 sq m) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inside the Paradox Museum where &amp;apos;nothing makes sense&amp;apos; 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