After Paris and Lyon, Marseille opens this Friday its museum of illusion at the Voûtes de la Major. Follow the guide for a visit upside down!
Already present in Paris and Lyon, the museum of illusion opens its doors with its trompe l’oeil, distorting mirrors and other optical illusions this Friday, June 17 at the Voûtes la Major in Marseille. We were prepared to lose our bearings, and we were not disappointed! At the museum of illusion, our senses are awake, and our neurons are boiling!
And this is intended: the interest of the museum is to deceive our senses, whether visual, auditory, even olfactory.
It is “overwhelm our senses“, in a fun way, while learning: “you will understand the notions of putting into perspective, putting into abyss, or even balance“, confesses the director of the museum, Steven Carnel to our journalists Mélanie Frey and Xavier Schuffenecker.
We were four, and here we are multiplied ad infinitum in the hall of mirrors. We “cut off the head” of Clara, our intern. We also walked on the walls. In short, at the museum of illusion, you have to accept being surprised.
In front of hypnotic figures for example: at first glance, our brain sends back the image of a spiral. It is not so. “There are endless shapes, colors, figures. Your senses, in this case your eyes, send back a lot of information to you. Your brain cannot synthesize, so it will fixate on what the most common thing about him is a spiral. Your senses deceive your brain“, explains Steven Carnel.
It’s interactive, it’s fun, and above all, it’s unique. Because depending on age, temperament or sensitivity, visitors will react differently. “Some are more susceptible to optical illusions, others to equilibrium. Some just won’t react for several minutes“, explains the director.
After Paris, and Lyon, the Marseillais can now rush to the museum of illusion. More than 70 works are accessible, and the museum is already thinking about new experiences, because our senses can be turned upside down to infinity!
