What is there
to see?

The question “What is there to see?” should better be called “What is there to experience?”. Because even though we perceive illusions with our eyes, in the Museum of Illusions the focus is more on doing.

In general, there are two different categories in the museum:

• first: showrooms, which only make the illusion recognisable through the visitor himself and
• second: pictures on the walls that represent interesting optical illusions. Some of these pictures may already be familiar from school days, others are new. But no matter, it is always exciting to observe how our brain can be deceived.

Whether with friends, alone or with the family, trying out the optical illusions in the showrooms is really fun! (If you come alone, the team will assist you).

The museum is visited as a tour. So when you pass a room that needs to be interacted with, you have to wait your turn. But waiting also has its advantages! You can get an idea in advance of what you can and cannot do to achieve a perfect result – or rather a perfect illusion. By the way, you can tell when and if a room or an object is suitable for active interaction by the corresponding yellow markings on the floor.

Mainly, the rooms play with mirrors and different floor levels. But there are also secret entrances and special lighting effects. What always matters, however, is the appropriate perspective. For example, in a room you can immediately see that the floor is uneven, which creates the illusion. But if you change your position, you can no longer believe your own eyes because suddenly, everything looks different.

I was particularly fascinated by the room with the park bench, where you can easily make great “upsidedown movements”, and the room where you look huge in one corner and tiny in the other. Both times, the illusion effects are only really visible in the photos, but it is still so nice to realise that our brain combines at lightning speed, and it is the environment that then tricks us.