Arte Museum NY brings spring indoors | amNewYork

Arte Museum New York at Pier 61 in Chelsea Piers opened last September and offers immersive outdoor experiences indoors using technology and projections. Visitors encounter beaches made of light, where projected ocean and shells create the feeling of water and breeze. Interactive displays allow drawings to come to life and digital petals to move with a step or finger flick. The museum features rooms filled with flowers and waterfalls, including exhibits that shift like forests and scenes that resemble snowing petals. A virtual wall of crashing waves combines real and digital effects. Visitors describe the experience as beautiful, uplifting, and highly immersive.

"It was an ocean and a beach made of light, projected in an immense, immersive display. You experienced the feeling of the water and the smell in the breeze of the ocean, she said. You could lie down and feel like you're in the water and you see the shells and you can touch the shells."

"Tourists and New Yorkers are discovering a new type of museum in Manhattan where technology and projections create immersive experiences with beaches, waterfalls, flowers and spring lasts all year. Drawings come to life, gigantic flowers explode and digital versions of petals are swept away with a step or a flick of a finger. This museum mixes moving images and interaction, bringing the outdoors inside."

"Arte Museum New York, which opened last September at Pier 61, in the Chelsea Piers, is heading into its first spring, providing walls and floors filled with flowers and waterfalls as well as some newer exhibits. The scenery is fantastic. It makes me feel good vibes and it's beautiful, Julissa Compres said beside Alexis Alvarado in a room that nearly seemed to be snowing a flurry of flowers and a storm of petals."

"They walked a little further and stood beneath a massive tower of crashing waves forming a wall of water, at once real and virtual. I like the immersiveness of everything, said Nadine Driver, visiting from Virginia Beach. I liked the flower room and how the scene changed like the forest exhibit."

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