Manchester attractions: The Museum of Illusions

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Manchester has a new and exciting attraction for families and students alike.  The Museum of Illusions is completely new to the UK and is set to open for the public this Friday, with that in mind, we sent Theo and Sofia to have a look around.

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00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World and welcome to the Museum of Illusions.

00:05Hello and welcome to Manchester World and welcome to the Museum of Illusions,

00:09which is Manchester's next big exciting venue.

00:12Me and Sophia were lucky enough to be allowed in before opening to try everything out

00:16and the range of options that they've got to try out is top, top tier.

00:20From the kaleidoscope here, to the Alan Turing eyes, which follow you around,

00:24to the Ames room, which allowed Sophia to live out her fantasy of being eight feet tall

00:28before immediately being shrunk back down.

00:30One of the great things is that it's a really accessible place,

00:32so they have screens where they can show you example poses,

00:35they can talk you through how the illusion works.

00:37One of my favourites was the symmetry room here,

00:40where essentially you utilise a mirror to try and make yourself look all silly,

00:43which I managed to do easily, obviously.

00:46And then the tilted room where you can bring out your best smooth criminal impression

00:49and try and get as wonky as you can.

00:54Then they've got great little games like this which are perfect for kids,

00:56where essentially you move the piece around and try and figure out what it matches with.

01:01You've also got great rooms like this which are perfect for Instagram,

01:04so much better for slightly older people too.

01:08And again, I mean this is a perfect example of how it can just send your head completely.

01:12Sophia here dangling off a wall and then...

01:16So this is the vortex tunnel which is spinning

01:19and the idea is that it makes you believe that the um...

01:22Don't laugh at me.

01:25It makes you feel like the whole world's spinning

01:28and you can't help but like bump yourself off the walls.

01:32So the museum itself opens on the 27th of September, which is this Friday.

01:36We're really thankful that they let us in early to do a little bit of filming around the place

01:40and it really was a great time.

01:42There's rooms like this where there's activities for kids.

01:44Sophia got bored at this point and started playing cards with herself six times

01:48and then hopped on this massive chair,

01:49which isn't actually a massive chair,

01:51so yeah, that's all we've got for you

01:52and even on the way out there's a little bit of an illusion to keep your mind busy.

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