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MoMath - The Museum of Mathematics

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

New York, New York

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Inaugurated in 2012 after the Long Island Goudreau Museum of Mathematics closed, the MoMath is a one-of-a-kind museum dedicated to a subject often discussed but rarely seen: Math.

A playground for both the young and the less young, the MoMath is a place curated to satisfy both sides of your brain. Conceived as a two-story-tall tech fair, the MoMath might open your eyes to how math underpins so much of our daily life, from the shapes of nature to architecture, technology, and art.

But the museum doesn't try to bog visitors down under deep layers of complex formulas and algebraic nightmares. Instead, the objective is to give people a sensory experience of what mathematical abstractions look and behave like in real life, presenting concepts of rational interaction to the extreme limits of intuitive delight and visual wonder.

Bicycles with square wheels, sculptures of light and sound reacting to your touch, and other exhibits that would make Dr. Who's droids seriously jealous await patrons at every turn. An immersive video set that will turn your slightest movements into dynamic fractal fun, and other tricks of perception await and also educate the curious.

So if you want to spend a memorable afternoon in a never-ending realm of numeric functions, enhance your Rubik's cube-solving abilities, or just fool around with lasers and calculating machines, don't waste time (Math doesn't like it)! Go to MoMath, where the densely rational becomes fun.

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N - R to 28th Street/Broadway or 23rd Street6 to 28th Street/Park Av S or 23rd StreetF - M to 23rd Street. Tickets are $26 for adults and $20 for children, students, and senior citizens.

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MoMath - The Museum of Mathematics
11 East 26th Street
New York, New York, 10010
United States
40.743214, -73.987389
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