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New pop-up museum in Chicago features a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room

The new wndr museum is an experiential and immersive pop-up experience, the first of its kind to open in Chicago.

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Designed to provoke curiosity, challenge perception, explore immersive art and ignite our sense of wonder and possibility, its launch exhibition, entitled Finite/Infinite, was inspired by Charles and Ray Eames' iconic 1977 Powers of Ten film, which begins with a scene on the Chicago Lakefront and explores both the infinite scale of the universe and finite detail as tiny as human cells.

Inside, you'll find a playful, engaging, fully immersive atmosphere, elevated by substantive content, and incorporating art from some of the world’s most celebrated and beloved artists.

For the first time ever, a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room will be on display in Chicago – presented as one of the final steps on the journey through the wndr museum.

There'll also be a Microscope Hall: "We are surrounded by objects much smaller than us that we often overlook," explains the museum. "Microscopes allow us to observe those items that are invisible to the naked eye. Guests will have the opportunity to open small shadow boxes that contain unexpected miniatures of familiar scenes. There will also be two hologram displays that play with guests’ perceptions."

The Prism Room is a gallery of prisms covering the walls. Made of semi-translucent, iridescent materials, these prisms refract light and display the spectral colours of the rainbow. The Ames Room, meanwhile, is a mind-bending optical illusion. When empty, it looks like an ordinary space. But once inside, people appear to have dramatically shrunken or grown in size.

There's also a DNA Cave where you can walk around an expansive structure that mimics the connectivity of DNA. Plus a Cloud Room that asks the question: Have you ever wondered what it might feel like to walk among the clouds?

To purchase tickets, and find out more, visit www.wndrmuseum.com.

Silhouette of a visitor walking through an immersive light installation with neon pink, blue and white thread-like strands radiating from walls and ceiling in the wndr museum's Finite/Infinite exhibition
Man and child in a white hexagonal-panelled room with illuminated edges, appearing to jump or pose playfully together
Hundreds of glowing spheres arranged in a grid pattern against a dark background, creating an optical illusion that appears to recede into infinity
Three illuminated plasma globes with branching electrical filaments against a backdrop of undulating blue and black wavy lines at wndr museum's Finite/Infinite exhibition
Woman gazing at her reflection in a circular mirror inside the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room with white pumpkin sculptures visible in the background
Visitors interact with illuminated spheres and prisms in the Prism Room at wndr museum, with colourful light refracting through the semi-translucent, iridescent materials on display
Intricate network of glowing purple and blue geometric lines and hexagonal structures filling an immersive gallery space
Person wearing patterned trousers standing on an illuminated blue and pink pixelated LED floor at the wndr museum
Man holding a VR headset up to his face inside the wndr museum's purple and white crystalline Infinity Mirrored Room installation
Woman with white-blonde hair smiling beneath geometric blue and pink neon lines in an immersive art installation
Visitor stands within Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room surrounded by hundreds of iridescent triangular forms that reflect light in shades of purple, pink and green
Woman peering through a white telescope pointing at a colourful galaxy display with blue, purple and pink nebula clouds against a dark wall
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