TURN your world upside down with a visit to London's latest 'Instagram-friendly' attraction - the Paradox Museum. Launching tomorrow, the exhibit features 25 different crazy rooms with mazes, gravity-defying furniture and mind-bending tunnels. Much like the Museum Of Ice Cream and the Balloon Museum, this isn't a museum in the traditional sense - more of an opportunity for plenty of selfies.
But that will suit the hordes of Millennial and Gen Z visitors just fine, because between all the 50 family-friendly interactive displays and optical illusions, there are plenty of Instagrammable moments. A description on the website reads : "Step into a world where nothing makes sense yet everything feels real. Come, explore, and let paradoxes redefine your reality.
" From the moment I stepped foot into the first exhibition, which can be found directly opposite Harrods in Knightstbridge, I was snapping away for social media - which is exactly what they want, of course. The rooms are all a series of optical illusions, from tiny sculptures that flip perspectives to tilting slopes and mirror mazes - I spent around an hour exploring. My favourite room was Zero Gravity, built to look like a room inside a spaceship , and if I jumped it looked like I was floating in space.
Another of my favourites was called 'The Tilted Room - where gravity takes a holiday,' which had a white sloping floor and walls featuring either graffiti or mirrors, that made me look wonky. There are plenty of nods to pop cu.