Impossible Museum

The Impossible Museum in Genoa offers over 60 interactive installations that challenge perception and provide unique photo opportunities.

Planning your visit

The Impossible Museum in Genoa holds over 60 installations built around perception: optical illusions, three-dimensional trick art painted for a specific camera position, rooms that distort scale, mirror spaces and interactive puzzles. Each exhibit has a marked spot from which the effect resolves, and the museum is designed around photographing each other from those positions.

For Genoa it works as a family option in a city whose principal attractions — the aquarium, the palaces of Via Garibaldi, the old port — are otherwise adult or outdoors.

A visit runs about an hour. The value depends on participation; groups get a great deal from it, solo visitors much less.

Weekends and holidays bring queues at the popular installations, so earlier weekday slots are calmer.

Bookable options are entry tickets. Note that related illusion museums operate in other Italian cities including Palermo, so confirming Genoa on the booking avoids confusion. Current availability is listed below.