If you want a museum with a wide variety of statues and paintings, traditional in nature, the New Museum is NOT for you. But, if you want a museum that requires your participation to enjoy the work.....The New Museum ($12 for students, $16 general) is WELL worth it. I repeat...WELL. WORTH. IT.
Where else can you....
ride a carousel?
slide down 3 floors of a museum?
float in a tank that simulates the dead sea?
believe me. It's unREAL! Never have I ever been in a museum that gave me this much excitement!
my friends and I went on the carousel....
but I was too much of a weinie to go on the slide! They ended up going though....so cool and tough with their helmets! ;]
Other notable parts of the museum:
sit in with your head in a fish tank!
take some pills! (not recommended....I recommend putting your hands in them and playing with them though.)
entering a room with a strobe light and observing the...animals.
walk among mushrooms!
It's not a HUGE selection, but prepare to spend a lot of time trying out the activities. To go on the carousel, slide and tank, you'll need to sign a waiver. Do it. Really. Do it.
for more information visit
http://www.newmuseum.org/
