WonderCleveland (WC), the city’s first experiential museum, invites guests to enjoy a mixed-reality experience this winter break through their augmented reality phone app, which acclimates perfectly to the times to provide a Covid-safe environment without sacrificing your favorite group activities.
WC has created an environment in which guests can now take pictures, play, and even dance with Santa and one of his reindeer without coming in contact with any actual people.
Inspired by Candytopia in San Francisco and Otherworld in Columbus, WonderCleveland is a fully immersive experience in which guests are encouraged to explore, interact, and play with everything in sight (and in many cases, out of sight through augmented reality). In addition to taking pictures with virtual Santa, guests can use the app to encounter a triceratops inside the volcano environment, a teen-aged robot inside the spaceship zone, and so much more.
WonderCleveland’s exhibits interact with guests through the use of interactive video components and projection mapping. Guests can expect to view creatures, people, and objects from different times and dimensions. Whether it’s a dancing monkey in the rainforest or an eight-foot-tall PEZ dispenser, guests will be surprised at every single turn, tunnel, spaceship, and dimension which they travel through. The most picturesque exhibits are furnished with photo equipment and assistance designed to help groups take the perfect “selfie” or Instagram-tailored image, to document and post their experience (#wondercleveland).
Examples of installations include:
- Guests sit on a floating crescent moon for a picture over the Cleveland skyline and the northern lights
- A motion-tracking reflection display gives guests the ability to see themselves traveling through the stars in an outer space dimension
- A massive laser projection scene transports guests to a magical beach environment for an enchanting mini-vacation
- A mirrored neon infinity room for stunning selfies
- A perspective-altering selfie scene in which guests step inside an action figure box and become the newest life-size surprise gift.
Ownership said that safety is paramount to preserving these fun hands-on experiences during a challenging pandemic which has brought so much isolation – therefore they conduct regular routine sanitizations of all touch points, limit the number of tickets sold every 15 minutes to avoid overcrowding, and utilize augmented reality so stunning experiences can be made with minimal interaction outside of your group.
Guests can purchase tickets online and select from a number of arrival timeslots for their group. Each time slot is limited to a small group of people to ensure a quality experience, although guests are welcome to stay as long as they want. Most guests spend between 45 minutes and three hours inside the museum. While walk-ups can be accommodated when available, popular time slots tend to sell out, so groups are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance.
WonderCleveland is offering a 20% discount with code “WONDER,” now through Dec 25.
For tickets and for more information please visit: wondercleveland.com
