Freshman Seminar Fall 17 LC10

Cooper Hewitt Museum

The Cooper Hewitt Museum is located at 2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128. I highly recommend stopping by to check it out if you’re ever near central park.

I heard about this museum about two summers ago and after seeing many popular Instagram posts from the museum, I decided to check it out with my friends. There are many different types of exhibits at this museum, you can find exhibits that regard fashion, architecture and structures, paintings, history, and the list goes on. What really makes the experience at this museum a bit better than other museums is that there are a lot of interactive and immersive activities present. To start off, once you get your ticket, they also provide you with a pen that u can use to save any piece of work that you want to remember and it goes onto your personal account. You can look back at these memories by checking in your code that you got with your ticket. The pens are also used to work the touch screen tables where you can make virtual objects. Of course you can’t keep these pens so they will have to be returned at the end of your visit.

What I was most excited about was visiting the immersion room. It was probably the coolest thing I’ve seen at a museum. In this room, it’s basically blank walls where you can project pre-made pictures or your own creation by drawing on the touch screen tables. It’s very free and you can basically draw anything. In my case my friends drew a banana and I was really satisfied with how the results came out. Another part of the museum that I liked was the garden outside. There are seats and benches and grass and even a ping pong table. Sadly you need to bring your own paddles and ball so we couldn’t play. There are also these spinning chairs that are really innovative and mind blowing. You can also buy these chairs for $721. (: I would definitely recommend coming when the weather is nice because the garden is a really great place to just relax and maybe take pictures or have a picnic.

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