The Photo Illusions let you indulge in something we have all done at least once – click illusionary pictures. You can levitate in the air, shrink or oversize, and even meet your clones. Take your cameras along and click pictures that make everyone around witness the unbelievable. This room is filled with laughter as visitors are unable to recognize what they just saw.

The Museum walls hold the real spell, it’s on them that the objects creating the illusions are mounted. A collection of images using colours, lights, and patterns to create baffling visions, is all this segment is about. Gaze at them for a few seconds, and your brain will begin to notice what may or may not be there, sometimes, the images can vanish, although they never even move.

The biggest Museum of Illusions houses the largest collection of 3D illusions, that are, holograms. These illusions trick your grey cells by transforming into something different or vanishing altogether. But do they really? Holograms, which vary from holographic portraits to those that instil horror in you, are among the most confounding illusions in store for visitors at the museum.

When you get lost in a desert with no water, you look for and mostly find an oasis. And sometimes, your brain hallucinates and brings one in front of you, only not for real. The Dubai Museum of Illusions lets you experience this concept of Mirage through a phantasmic object right in front of you, yet you cannot touch or grab it.

Stereograms are two pictures of a 3D object, clicked and presented so that the object looks different from different angles. The Museum of Illusions brings a puzzle into the mix. So, it will take you more than an attempt to understand the puzzle, and then only would you decipher the object shown in the 2D picture. This is a brain teaser at its finest!

The Museum of Illusions would be incomplete without the most popular magic trick. The Head on the Platter lets you experience being in a magic show, where your body becomes invisible, and only your head remains in sight. And you know the trick here, yet would still feel amazed as you click some of the coolest social media worthy pictures.

We can be normal in size in our regular world, but would that be true in Gulliver’s Lilliput? The Chair Illusion brings to life this very concept, how the perceived size of a person changes according to the objects around them. So, if you can find just the right angle, you would get jaw dropping images of a tiny you sitting on a giant’s chair.

The Ames Room might look simple, yet as you walk through it, you would become a dwarf and a giant in a few steps. The fun yet astounding distortion gives you the chance to click pictures at different heights. As you grow or shrink in size going from one corner to another, you witness how deceptive appearances can get.

The Anti-Gravity Room lives up to its name in the most astonishing ways. The upward-rolling balls and uphill-flowing water in the room defy Newton’s concepts with finesse. Your brain will believe you are standing on a flat surface, yet when your eyes witness the illusions, you won’t know what to believe. Even if your brain gets the catch, it still won’t be able to deny what the eyes see as real.