PHOTOS: New museum of optical illusions in Erbil tricks eyes of visitors

Halgurd Sherwani 2021/01/31 10:31

Visitors at a new museum in the Kurdistan Region's capital of Erbil step into one of over 40 interactive optical illusions displayed there. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – At a newly opened museum in the Kurdistan Region’s capital of Erbil, visitors are being wowed by the clever and confusing optical illusions they encounter and interact with.

The picture shows a incline between the two figures while in the reality it is a flat ground. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) — Visitors at a new museum in the Kurdistan Region's capital of Erbil step into one of over 40 interactive optical illusions displayed there. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

This unusual and striking museum just recently opened in the autonomous federal region of Iraq, where over 40 illusions are displayed in the three-dimensions form and visitors are encouraged to step into them.

A man is seen standing on a chair while another one is sitting behind. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) — Visitors at a new museum in the Kurdistan Region's capital of Erbil step into one of over 40 interactive optical illusions displayed there. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

“We inaugurated this museum for the people of Erbil as well as for purposes of tourism, education, and entertainment,” the manager of the museum told Kurdistan 24.
Editing by John J. Catherine

A lady with a cutting equipment pretends to cut the boy's body into half. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) — Visitors at a new museum in the Kurdistan Region's capital of Erbil step into one of over 40 interactive optical illusions displayed there. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

A man is seen to walk on a wall of a room. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)