Museum of illusions. What to see, where is. Which museum of illusions is better: in Moscow or St. Petersburg?

Without the participation of consciousness and will, each person has processes of automating actions. This is due to the mechanisms and physiological properties of our body. He is given a wonderful gift to switch to himself in the process of automation most of the work of consciousness. And this property is not only motor functions. Automatisms exist in our perception. So, an unfamiliar foreign speech is heard in the form of an undifferentiated stream of sounds. After training, it is perceived differently. We hear separate phrases and words. This is explained by the formation of auditory automatisms.

However, in the most ordinary perception of the world, this "rough work" of our unconscious mechanisms is almost invisible. It is detected using special techniques. Unusual conditions that are created for perceptual mechanisms, distort our perception. In other words, they cause illusions.

Unusual museum

In 2013, on the Thai island of Phuket, an amazing attraction was opened, which is able to deceive the eyesight. This is the Museum of Optical Illusions, or the Museum of 3D. It is called Phuket Trick Eye Museum.

Museum of illusions immediately fell to the taste of the guests of the island, as well as local residents. The owner of the new institution comes from Korea. He opened such museums in his homeland, in Thailand, in Chiang Mai and in Pattaya.

The Museum of Illusions in Phuket is a building in which the thematic halls are located. At the entrance visitors are invited to take off their shoes and hand it over to storage at a special counter. Through the halls you can walk barefoot or in socks, because some fragments of some paintings are depicted on the floor.

In the first hall of the second floor, where visitors come, there are reproductions of paintings by famous artists. They are located on the ceiling, on the walls and on the floor. Reproductions were made in a joking manner. Any visitor can become a hero of the Van Gogh painting "Night", inflate Mona Lisa, support the pants falling from the screaming Edward Munch, and also be photographed with many other images. More than a hundred paintings, causing illusions, will not leave anyone indifferent. At the same time, they urge visitors to just fool around.

After that, the Museum of Illusions invites everyone to the next room. It is dedicated to Phuket and Thailand. Here visitors can collect a puzzle with the famous head of the Buddha, become a guest of the Songkran festival with Thai politicians and Barack Obama, and also fly a paraglider.

Going further, guests can see 3D-paintings. They depict scenes from the life of tourists who visited the island, who take pictures all in a row, like sushi, shopping, crocodiles, etc.

The next room is a mirror one. In it, when creating a special perspective, you can take a picture of a very funny picture with yourself in the role of the main character. The next room is dominated by the theme of angel wings.

Getting to the first floor, visitors find themselves in a world of travel and adventure. Here they are given the opportunity to climb a flying helicopter on a hanging ladder, ride a sled, leave aside a snow avalanche, be in the mouth of a shark, fly on a carpet-plane, drive a car with a zombie, etc.

Going to the Museum of Illusions, do not forget to bring your camera. You can also use a tripod and flash.

Camera obscura in Scotland

One of the most visited museums in Edinburgh is the "World of Illusions". His exhibits show the possibility of achieving visual effects, which magicians use in their speeches. But the main highlight of this museum is a camera obscura. It is located on the top floor. According to scientists, such a camera existed in the fourth century BC.

The pinhole camera is a dull room with no windows. A small hole is only at the top of one of the walls. A large white plate is located on the opposite wall. The light that passes through a single hole allows you to see the objects on the screen that are on the outside of the building. At the same time, their guests are seen turning upside down. Tourists who visited the camera obscura, can admire the unusual projection of the square, which is located in front of the Edinburgh Castle.

In the remaining rooms of the museum there are various technical novelties. They amaze visitors with their color and light effects. Here you can contemplate a plasmosphere with lightning and entertaining holograms, as well as your own reflections, which are distorted in various ways.

A large number of exhibits are interactive. They allow visitors to study the visual effects and optical properties of various objects. For those who love history, the museum offers a visit to the hall, where ancient photographs of the city of Edinburgh are collected.

Fun Museum in Japan

Takao Trick Art Museum is located in the suburbs of Tokyo. It is a museum of optical illusions, where 3D-pictures of the Egyptian exposition are presented. At a certain position of the visitor, the drawings acquire volume. The attraction itself is small, but it is popular with visitors and residents of the Japanese capital.

Russian Museum of Illusion

In St. Petersburg, on the basis of the photo studio "Behemoth", an unusual institution was opened. In it, every adult visitor can feel like a child in a parallel reality, where the elementary laws of physics do not work. Address of the Museum of Illusions - Moscow Avenue, 107, building 5.

The initiative to create an unusual attraction was put forward by the photographers of the Behemoth studio. Of similar museums around the world, they also borrowed ideas for exhibits. The exposition in St. Petersburg is represented by illusions not only visual, but also sound.

Reviews of the Museum of Illusions show that visitors during the viewing of exhibits lose confidence in their bodies of perception.

3D artifact

Visitors also noted the colorful canvas that is in the museum. This 3D image helps to determine a person's mood. If the visitor of the museum is calm, then in the picture he sees a minimal movement. In the case of fatigue or intoxication, the illusion of displacement increases.

Ames Room

This is one of the main exhibits of the Museum of Illusions in St. Petersburg. It serves as the embodiment of the idea of the great psychologist A. Ames. At first glance, the exhibit looks like an ordinary room, having a rectangular shape and standard dimensions. However, as a result of visual illusion, a person who stands in one corner seems to be a giant, and in the other a dwarf. When a visitor moves to the opposite corner, it changes in size. The giant becomes a dwarf, and vice versa.

The secret of the illusion created lies in the arrangement of the room. Its end wall is located to the side at different angles. To the right - under the blunt, to the left - under the sharp. Strengthening the effect is due to special patterns, located on the ceiling and walls, as well as the checkered floor. In other words, the secret of focus lies in a successfully created false perspective.

The Ames window

This is another remarkable exhibit of the museum. In order to understand the essence of the illusion, it is necessary to look at the Ames window for a few minutes. When creating this optical illusion, various psychological methods were used.

The motor rotates the frame clockwise. However, visitors believe that the frame performs oscillatory movements. The effect of illusion is created by an unusual form. The frame is made in the form of a trapezoid.

Unusual exhibition in Moscow

On the Zubarevsky Boulevard of the capital you can visit the Museum of Optical Illusions. In Moscow, such an exhibition opened for the first time. On an area of 1000 square meters there are wonderful exhibits. They show different New Year illusions. Among them is the "Snow Kaleidoscope", which creates the appearance of a blizzard, "Santa's Santa Claus" in an upside-down form, inscriptions on New Year's balls, which can be read from the only suitable point for this, and much more.