But alas, like every other art-as-spectacle installation, this one is going to be hard to get into: Tickets for pop-up have already sold out, but it’s open until 3 p.m. today on a first-come, first-serve basis, so get in line now if you want to see the sprinkle pool for yourself.
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Move over, Willy Wonka.
A visit begins with a free scoop of ice cream, followed by helium-filled, edible balloons that transform visitors’ voices into high-pitched squeaks.
The Museum of Ice Cream is sold out, but more tickets may be released via the museum’s Instagram page, according to the Daily News. The large pool contains roughly 11,000 pounds of confetti-colored fake sprinkles. Posted rules say: “Make a wish”, “dip at your own risk” and “Caution: May cause spontaneous happiness”.
Maryellis Bunn and Manish Vora created the museum to fulfill Bunn’s childhood dream of swimming in a pool of sprinkles, The Associated Press reported. The month-long pop-up, which bills itself as an “urban ice cream playground”, features a series of interactive installations, all themed around the sweet treat, that function mostly as really fun photo ops.
In a nod to Willy Wonka, the Chocolate Chamber is entered through a satiny brown curtain to a musical remix of Pure Imagination.
“The Chocolate Chamber”, a room offering free chocolate and a chocolate fountain, is among the attraction of ice cream-themed works of art previewed at the Museum of Ice Cream, Thursday July 28, 2016, in NY. They’ll even be able to find their ideal flavour match with ice-cream Tinder. The ice cream flavors were created by food scientist Irwin Adams.
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“There’s tons of instructional items on the walls that talk about the history of ice cream and what the history of ice cream means to the greater landscape of American culture”, said Crystal Anderson of the Museum of Ice Cream.
