Museum of Ice Cream

Melt into a world of fun and flavor.

Photo by: Kaye Liautaud

Welcome to the Museum of Ice Cream in downtown New York City. This pop up exhibit features installations that are multi-sensory and provoke imagination in a space inspired by flavors and deserts. Visitors get to experience MOIC through interactive installations while tasting various flavors of ice cream throughout the exhibit. Keep scrolling for more of the joy at Museum of Ice Cream.
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Meet the men guiding the magic at MOIC. Ricardo Sanchez, a.k.a. Ricky Road, and Adam Troyer a.k.a. Red Velvet; employees of MOIC. Once you step into the Museum of Ice Cream your real name melts away and you are encouraged to choose an ice cream name for yourself. The MOIC employees prefer to be called by their ice cream names.
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No one is exempt from having an ice cream flavor for a name at MOIC. Not even celebrities. Take a look at these flavors and see which names are familiar.
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A dining hall with a table of deserts await guests at the MOIC in NYC. Don’t be fooled. The deserts are not edible. Only the trays of hazelnut, pistachio, and strawberry macarons are given for guests to eat.
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The subway room at MOIC is a recreation of the NYC train cars with an automated announcer telling visitors the name of the next stop. This room also features windows with moving graphics of the skyline, galaxy, and realistic view of the NYC subway platforms.
“A lot of curiosity and kind of confusion-excitement.” -Ricky Road, MOIC employee.
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A room of hanging bananas split into two colors. Red Velvet told me that the banana room is where adults have the most fun.
“They’ll actually run through them and have fun. When you get an adult to be a kid again, that really satisfies the purpose of the room.” -Red Velvet, MOIC employee.

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“Ice Cream is a smile.” -Red Velvet, MOIC employee.
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A rainbow hallway lit up in primary colors.
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Giant sculptures of scoop handles scooping a ball of ice cream. The textures in the sculptures are realistic and well detailed. Visitors are given a scoop of stretchy ice cream in this room.
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This giant tube slide is three stories high and takes visitors for a fast spin. Ricky Road tells me this is his favorite room in the exhibit where adults don’t know what to expect. He said after pushing five grown women, who seemed skeptical down this slide, they were all screaming in crescendo.
“I think adults are more themselves when they go down the slide.” -Ricky Road, MOIC employee.
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The sprinkle pool is the final room in the exhibit. The pool is filled with rubber multi-colored sprinkles and a bright red slide. The beach balls are the cherry on top of the sprinkle pool experience. Be sure to take off your shoes before taking a dip in the sprinkles. There is a lifeguard on duty.
Kaye

I’m a fashion enthusiast that strives to create looks that fit my persona, effortlessly. Art exhibits, reading, the news and anything peaks my interest and strikes creativity, are all put into my blog to share with you.

Elena Bornstein at York College

Award winning contemporary artist, Elena Bornstein has an exhibit at York College. The former York College professor has her airbrushed paintings on display that is inspired by traveling experiences throughout different countries she’s visited. Bornstein’s paintings portray a unique, vibrant use of color and precise architecture.

The enticing display of paintings seems to be a well kept secret as students (including myself) were not aware of this exhibit. As my journalism class stepped into an empty art gallery, I spoke with Justin Capera while my fellow classmates looked curiously at Bornstein’s paintings. Capera, who is a senior at York College and majors in Journalism has an interest in art. He says he knew about York’s art exhibits until our journalism professor spoke about it in class.

“I found her work to be very vibrant. I enjoyed the colors and enjoyed the way the art made me feel. It made me feel joy”, said Capera. Capera also says that the college doesn’t let students know about exhibits or sends any emails.

I agree with Capera as I myself didn’t know about Bornstein’s work on campus until I read the school’s newspaper, Pandora’s Box.

Aside from not being well informed about Bornstein’s exhibit until I went to class, her work is something to be shared with more students on campus. Her paintings took my mind off of the common school related worries that most students deal with. It was a pleasant and relaxing experience. Bornstein’s painting truly captures they viewers attention, forcing them to step foot into the places she’s been too and taken her inspiration from.

Kaye

I’m a fashion enthusiast that strives to create looks that fit my persona, effortlessly. Art exhibits, reading, the news and anything peaks my interest and strikes creativity, are all put into my blog to share with you.