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March 2020

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black and white where you can BE the color yourself (or pose with gigantic crayons, because, why not?) Also on hand, you'll find spotted candy-colored rooms in hues of pink, yellow, red, and blue with quirky objects like telephone booths, "flower caves," and clawfoot bathtubs complete with plush rubber duckies. Foodies can pose away with massive donuts and sushi rolls. There's even a wall with larger-than- life angel wings and ball pits. If you have a tiny dog, the website mentions that you can bring them along to add more cuteness to your snaps too. "People bring suitcases with different clothes so they can change for a different installation," Kurylin explains. "They have different outfits, dresses. This would be a changing room, but there's also a lot of photo opportunities." "We consider all of our installations artwork," Benchak says. "Is it a museum? No," says Seattle-based museum consultant Susie Wilkening. "A museum is a nonprofit organization with an educational mandate. Is there anything educational about [these types of museums]? Probably not. "Does that mean it's a bad thing? No." Wilkening continues. "It looks entertaining, very immersive. It speaks to the desire, especially among young adults, to have real experiences that are immersive, tactile, even though they're using social media to document it." Since the rise of the Instagram photo app in the past decade, museum professionals have had to contend with this desire. Many have loosened long-standing restrictions on photo making, even encouraging it, or "It speaks to the desire, especially among young adults, to have real experiences that are immersive, tactile, even though they're using social media to document it."

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