Mirror maze and optical illusion exhibitions open at Science Centre
It’s time to level up your escape room skills now that a 270 square metre mirror maze has opened at the Science Centre Singapore (SCS).
Named “Professor Crackitt’s Light Fantastic: A Mirror Maze Experience”, the new permanent exhibition, dubbed as Asia’s largest, is one of two things the venue has introduced as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. The other is an exhibition of optical illusions called “The Mind’s Eye”.
The mirror maze features 105 mirror cells, more than 17 entertaining light displays as well as a number of holograms and ‘fake’ exits, and is specially created for the SCS by Adrian Fisher Design, who once broke the Guinness World Record for creating the world’s largest hedge maze.
The mirror maze also doubles as a setting for an exciting escape room game, where visitors are expected to form an escape plan to “assist the eccentric and forgetful Professor Crackitt find his parrot, Wattnot”.
“Escape rooms continue to trend in Singapore among the millennials, and increasingly as a team-building activity among working adults. What makes Professor Crackitt’s mirror maze – the largest in Asia – stand out from other mazes and escape rooms is a sense of bewilderment that it ignites through the science of light and reflections,” said SCS’ chief executive, Associate Professor Lim Tit Meng.
Meanwhile, “The Mind’s Eye” features more than 30 exhibits curated by SCS, designed by Jack Rouse Associates and executed by SPACElogic Pte Ltd, with some of them belonging to artists from overseas, such as France and Japan.
“Visitors don’t have to be fans of science to enjoy these photo-worthy creations, but we are confident that they will be intrigued and inspired to find out how illusions take advantage of the way we perceive and make them seem real,” said Associate Professor Lim about “The Mind’s Eye”, which will be located at the entrance gallery of SCS.
Among the exhibits is one called “Your Move” that showcases a chess piece set within an animation sequence “which will appear to the viewer periodically as they blink”. Another is called “View With A Twist”, which showcases a wire sculpture that “transforms from an elephant into two giraffes simply by shifting the visitor’s point of view”.
Both exhibitions are available from 14 June 2017 and admissions are free. However, standard admission charges to SCS still apply.
Here’s a sneak peek:
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