Chicago's new experimental museum, wndr, 1130 W. Monroe St., is the West Loop's newest, Instagrammable attraction. Find rooms of curiosities, including an infinity mirror room, and other spaces where "beauty and the imagination meet." For tickets, head to https://wndrmuseum.com/
Weston McDonald is a manager at the newly opened wndr museum, here in the DNA Cave, an installation made from connected plastic straws.
— Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune, Sept. 21, 2018A visitor's hand draws a charge to the glass edges of a plasma orb at the newly opened wndr museum on the West Side.
— Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune, Sept. 21, 2018At the newly opened wndr museum on the West Side, Quincy Ross, left, museum operations staffer, Hannah Parker, production assistant, and Weston McDonald, facilities manager, show the infinity mirror room, "Let's Survive Forever," an installation by artist Yayoi Kusama.
— Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune, Sept. 21, 2018Plasma orbs and a mural by artist Kate Lewis await visitors at the newly opened wndr museum on the West Side.
— Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune, Sept. 21, 2018Irwin Adam Eydelnant, formerly involved with the wndr museum, before the operation opened in August.
— Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune, Aug. 14, 2018At the newly opened wndr museum on the West Side, Quincy Ross, left, museum operations staffer, and Hannah Parker, production assistant, show off the Ames Room. The room has patterns and a slanted ceiling that play tricks with perspective.
— Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune, Sept. 21, 2018The wndr museum's Color Tunnel has an interactive LED floor.
— Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune, Sept. 21, 2018The ceiling of the Cloud Room at the newly opened wndr museum.
— Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune, Sept. 21, 2018"Let's Survive Forever" at the wndr in August.
— Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune, Aug. 14, 2018