Trick Art Museums draw tourists for photo ops

South Korea’s Trick Art Museums allows its visitors to truly interact with their paintings, thanks to some first-class optical illusions.
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Ever wanted to impale a mythical beast or prop up the Leaning Tower of Pisa? This is exactly the kind of service that Busan’s Trick Art Museum provides, by using clever optical illusions to place visitors right in the centre of the action.

Classic paintings have been manipulated using ‘trompe l’oeil’ techniques, which cause 2D paintings to appear 3-dimensional. You can see examples at the Museum’s site but information is in Korean only.

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