On Memorial Day weekend we hightailed it--do New Yorkers say "hightailed"?--from the Theatre District to the MOMA Museum to see the much talked about Rain Room. Unfortunately, even though the museum was closing in an hour, the line to see it was three hours long! So that didn't happen.
However, I went back yesterday by myself to get there at when it opened. The line had already become a two hour wait! I showed my membership pass and was able to skip about a half hour up in line, so that helped. Here is the front of the exhibit which is located outside of the museum.
Basically, the Rain Room is a squared off area inside a large dark room where water pours like a spring shower from the ceiling, but you can move through it and not get wet. Sensors shut off the flow of droplets as you move through it. The museum staff was letting about 10-12 people roam the area at a time. You could stay as long as you liked.
After waiting one and half hours outside in 90 degree heat, I finally was ushered inside where I could see the exhibit, but there was still another 30 minute wait. After watching so many people go through it, I spent only three minutes in the rain myself. This would be a more enthusiastic post if the wait time and the play time was turned around: wait three minutes, play two hours! (-:
I took this video of a cute mom and daughter couple playing in the rain together.
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