Museum of Illusions Atlanta

Located in Midtown Atlanta’s Atlantic Station, the Museum of Illusions offers over 80 interactive exhibits that challenge perception and provide educational entertainment for all ages.

Planning your visit

The Museum of Illusions in Atlanta's Atlantic Station is built for doing rather than looking: over 80 interactive exhibits covering optical illusions, holograms, and rooms engineered to defeat your sense of gravity and scale — the tilted room, the vortex tunnel, the infinity mirrors. It opened in 2018 and works particularly well with children, teenagers and groups, since almost every exhibit is designed to be photographed with you inside it.

Visits are self-guided and typically run about an hour, so this suits an afternoon slot rather than a full day. The main bookable option is a timed admission ticket, which is worth having in advance on weekends and school holidays when the Atlantic Station location fills up and the popular rooms develop queues. If you're travelling more widely, the same museum brand operates branches in a number of other cities, each with its own tickets and its own mix of installations. Current Atlanta availability is shown below.