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Goals

Explore new ways of problem-solving
Challenge the relationship between the mind and eye
Nurture the inner genius
Catalyze cross-generational interaction

Look up Maze in the dictionary, and you’ll find it described as a confusing network of intersecting paths or passages, a complex arrangement that causes bewilderment, confusion or perplexity. Now take that up a notch by adding two vital ingredients – fun and education – and you’ve arrived at Mazes, the exhibition.

Mazes winds its way over 9,000 square feet with over 60 puzzling experiences that inspire exuberant exploration and ingenuity. Test your perceptions and laugh your way through the maze of illusions, a feast of visual trickery. Master the many tricks around each corner and find out why illusions help us learn how our brain works. Run a marathon with your fingers on the Finger Mazes, or become a "webmaster" by climbing through an intricate web of ropes without getting tangled in the Web Maze. Grab an instrument and lay down a fresh beat in the Music Maze. Wrap your head around the Puzzle Maze, and get lost in a network of color in the Color Maze. Give your brain and body a workout. Conquer puzzling challenges and discover new ways of problem solving around every corner. Experience mazes of all kinds from 2-D to 3-D, fine print to fine art, and prefab to you-fab.

Activities
Maze-a-Palooza offers fully interactive maze experiences and puzzling challenges including:

Maze of Illusions – Step into a world of illusions! Keep your eyes peeled…what you see may not be what you get! Master the many tricks around each corner and learn why illusions help us learn how our brain works. Explore, observe, experiment, and test your perceptions!

Music Maze – Gong! Xylophone! Clave! Bongos! Steel drum! Ever heard of these? Ever played one? Experiment with instruments of all kinds and unleash your inner musician.

Giant Double-Sided Finger Maze – Let your fingers do the walking! Both your eyes are open but only one side of the design reveals itself at any one time. Wind your way from point A to point B and seek out wormholes that will zip you to the other side!

Continuous Quad Maze – Run a marathon with your fingers! Navigate your way through four side-by-side finger mazes. Solve one and race ahead to the next!

Arrow Maze – The goal may be only a few steps away but getting there isn’t as easy as you’d think! You’re the game piece! You control the horizontal! You control the vertical! You decide how many squares you want to move but you only get one direction.

Web Maze – Form an attachment to navigate through an intricate web of ropes. Climb over and under, but don’t get tangled up… reach the end and be a web master!

Mathematica Maze – Bridges and pathways create an intricate network of confusion! Piece together the solution to set you on the right path.

Color Maze – Pick a color combo and see where it leads! A repeating pattern is the key to your successful journey through this network of primary colors.

Headlong Maze – Left? Right? Wrong! You’ve gotta go straight to make your way through the twists and turns of this challenging maze.

Make-a-Maze - Think you have what it takes to amaze yourself and your family? This is your chance to create your own maze! This large play space gives you lots of room to work it out.

Giant Tower of Hanoi - It’s a mighty endeavor to create two identical towers out of this large stack of discs. Sure, Rome wasn’t built in a day, but with a little effort, the Giant Tower of Hanoi can be rebuilt in just a few minutes!

Marble Maze - Set your marble on the move! In this three dimensional marble maze you create the pathway for your marble to meander.

History of Mazes Gallery - Did you know that the first recorded maze in history was the Egyptian Labyrinth? Soak up everything there is to know about the true history of mazes over 6 incredible information panels.

David Anson Russo Fine Art Gallery - Unlike any other art gallery you’ve ever been in, this one has five huge, incredible maze artworks that you can actually put your fingers on and solve.

Brain Teaser Puzzle Tables - When is a puzzle not a puzzle? When it’s a table! Explore tables full of puzzling, mind bending adventures.

Labyrinthian Library - Grab a book and stay a while! This library is completely dedicated to mazes and labyrinths. Read your way through the whole library, and become a maze expert!

Interactives in Maze of Illusions:
Glimpse of Infinity: Don’t keep me in suspense! How can eight mirrors at forty-five degree angles create the illusion of infinity and suspend you into never ending space? Investigate this world of mirrors and see for yourself.
Fun House Mirrors: Stretch your face! Bend and contort your body into impossible shapes with the help of the fun house mirrors!
Prism Wall: Create a rainbow! Introduce a prism to a room filled with white light, and reveal the colors hidden within.
Color Shadow Wall: When is a white wall not a white wall? When it’s bathed in a magical rainbow of colored shadows.
Disappearing Colors: Grab a color paddle and find out what happens when you peer at color through other colors.
Read Red! Laugh your way through a list of colors that are much harder to say than you’d ever imagine.
Now You See it! Do you see shapes that aren’t there? Subjective contours make the invisible visible.
Impossible Shapes: Hurt your brain with these mind-bending shape shifters and decide which, if any, could possibly exist in 3-D.
Parallel: Find the parallels in this surprising bit of trickery – which shows that it’s not as simple as black and white.
Bird in a cage: Can you put a bird in a cage using only your eyes in under thirty seconds? With the magic of after images and negative images, you’ll be able to see the invisible!
Floating Circle: How can a flat, fixed drawing, transform into a moving image? Investigate the power of patterns to boggle your mind in this floating circle puzzle.
Bumpy: What’s lumpy and bumpy and flat all over? Shading is the key to this visual trickery.
Scene it: Can you trust your eyes to decipher a work of art? What you see first may not be all that meets the eye.
See Color? What makes something more than the sum of its parts? Check out this spinning illusion to see how Synergy in motion creates color out of thin air.

	"...Mazes was a hit that our family audience LOVED! It was perfect for our Spring audience and returning members. This is a highly recommended exhibit that we would do again." - Nancy Chartrand, Senior Scientist of Operations, Science North "Mazes was perfect for our visitors! There was so much for people to do and the Minotaur team was a pleasure to work with." - Jennifer Pink, Senior Scientist, Science North

INTERACTIVES (click below for picture)
 Parallel Lines
 Prism Wall
 Puzzle Maze
 Read Red
 Web Maze
 See Color
 Impossible Shapes
 Headlong Maze
 Arrow Maze
 Bird in a Cage
 Color Maze
 Color Shadow Wall
 Continuous Maze
 Disappearing Color
 Fun House Mirrors
 Glimpse of Infinity
 More Interactives

LOCATIONS
 Hands On! Regional, TN
 Science North, ON
 Children's Museum of Indianapolis
 Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, IN
 Elmhurst Historical Museum, IL
 South Florida Science Museum
 Hastings Museum, NE
 Discovery Museum, CT
 Crown Center - Kansas City, MO
 Florida International Museum

MAZE SPEC
Size: 5000 - 9000sq ft

Contents:

2000 sq. ft. Maze of Illusions includes: 27 signs with over 30 optical effects and illusions

600 sq. ft. Junior Explorer Music Maze includes: Mounted musical instruments: Giant Gong, Steel Drums, Hand Cymbals, Brass Bell, Bongos, Triangle, Maracas, Cow Bell, and more...

12' x 12' Crawl-In Web Maze

10' x 10' Arrow Jumping Floor Maze

10' x 10' Mathematica Floor Maze

10' x 10' Headlong Floor Maze

10' x 10' Color Floor Maze

Build-a-Maze

Giant Tower of Hanoi

Marble Maze

Continuous Finger Mazes

Double Sided Finger Maze

Headlong Finger Maze

Veronica's Finger Maze

History of Mazes Interpretive Gallery

David Anson Russo Fine Art Gallery

Brain Teaser Puzzle Tables

Labyrinthian Library

PRICING
Email at info@minotaurmazes.com
Call at 877-646-6828