UPDATE! The Museum of Ice Cream is re-opening in Los Angeles, CA in April. The exhibit will be open through the end of May. Tickets are on sale now!! Don’t miss out!
Earlier this summer a friend sent me a link to the pop up Museum of Ice Cream. I knew instantly that it would be a hit, and insisted we order tickets right away! My intuition was correct, just a few weeks later I invited other friends to join us, but when they went to buy their tickets, the event was already sold out. When I visited just after the first week of being opened, the wait list for tickets was over 70,000 people! I had the chance to speak with co-founder, Mary Ellis Bunn, and she said because so much of the exhibit is edible, it was only built to last 4 weeks. She’s contemplating a traveling exhibit or potentially finding a new space. So humble, she never thought this idea would take off. Boy was she wrong!
So what exactly did you miss if you weren’t amongst the lucky few to get tickets to this pop up museum?
Photo Booth
A party isn’t really a party without a photo booth, and video photo booths are all the rage these days. If only we knew about that interesting ice cream cone hang thing across one side of the screen. Oops! 
Ice Cream Samples
Instead of a traditional ticket, or a sticker like you would receive at many museums, you are granted an ice cream as you enter this museum. Each week the type of ice cream changes, but we had a delicious vanilla covered with cereal, taking us back to our childhood.
Edible Balloons
The first stop in the museum was a colorful room decorated with ice cream cones and a machine to make edible balloons, filled with helium! So if you popped it just right, you could have ended up with a squeaky voice. That didn’t quite happen for me, but it was fun nonetheless!
World’s Largest Collaborative Ie Cream Sundae
Sprinkle Pool
Miracle Berry
The miracle berry, also known as synsepalum dulcificum, tis found on a plant and can change sour foods to sweet. As you enter the room, you are handed one of these miracle berries, and then ice cream cones magically appear at filling stations with lemons. You can grab an ice cream and explore this trippy taste sensation.
Playground
And last but not least, you have to take a turn on the Museum of Ice Cream playground before leaving. There’s an ice cream scoop shaped seesaw (not easy to maneuver in a dress, but doable) and a swing in the shape of an ice cream bar.
The Museum of Ice Cream is located directly across the street from the Whitney Museum at 100 Gansevoort Street. Tickets are sold out for the current exhibit, but join the mailing list to learn about new ticket releases or other events relating to the museum. If you have a ticket for later this month, be prepared to wait in the line. Even if you have a ticket, they only let in groups of 8 every five minutes or so. I waited in line about an hour. Luckily they treat their patrons well showering you with candies, bottles of water, and ice cream samples, so the wait isn’t all that bad! But bottom line, it’s an instagrammer’s paradise!
Omg I love ice cream!!! This place looks and sounds like heaven. I need to go NOW! Thanks for sharing, Stephanie!
This looks really fun and cool. Who would think there’s such a thing as a museum of ice cream! I want a Miracle Berry…
The website gift shop and think geek sell them so you can try the experiment at home!
I love the idea of a pop-up museum – a perfect place to celebrate ice cream! Perhaps the popularity of the museum will inspire the creators to take it on the road!
I love this! I keep seeing this pop up in my Instagram feed, so thanks for sharing the whole story. Too bad it’ll be gone by the time I make it back to NYC in a few weeks.
Now that is a unique experience. Sprinkle pool, magical berry icecream and edible balloons. I have never heard of those. Thanks for sharing this experience with us. I hope to visit it some day.
My dad had an ice cream factory in Venezuela and he would have totally loved this. Wish he was alive. What a cool, no pun intended, experience so I could share this with him. Happy Roving!!!
OOOH I remember hearing about this and I’m officially SUPER jealous that you went! It looks more fun than I could have ever imagined…totally craving ice cream now and a sprinkle pool!
Okay, this is seriously cool and unique! I think this would be a must for me for a girl’s trip! My besties would LOVE this! How cute is that sprinkle pool?! And I’ve never heard of that berry before! So much ice-cream-wanderlust!
That sounds like so much fun! The ice cream with entry reminds me a bit of the Coke you get when you enter the Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta. I would love to try that Miracle Berry! Ice cream is my favorite dessert.
I love this concept and can’t believe that I hadn’t heard about it at all this summer. The sprinkle pool looks like so much fun, I would love this museum – awesome find!
Omg, I love the edible balloons. Sounds like a really fun place to visit.
this looks like a lot of fun! i need to try things like this more often. especially since it involves edibles! 🙂
I so wish I was here to go with you! This is seriously cool! Like a real life willy wonka haha. Looked like you had a ball!
Omg! I’ve been looking at this museum images everywhere and it made me crazy!! I am jealous because I would totally have loved to have that experience. I am an ice cream lover, and that sprinkle pool is something I would have loved to do!
This place looks awesome! I didn’t know such a thing existed. I will have to add this to my list. Great pictures too 🙂
OMG!! Ice cream (and pizza) is my favourite food in the world….I am so jealous, I can’t even tell you how much!! that looks like the dream of the dreams!! Gorgeous pics too! 🙂
Genius idea. I should open a pizza museum!
An ice cream museum is such a fun, whimsical idea! I think I need to add “sprinkle pool” to my future home must-have list lol
This looks like so much fun! I love the idea of an EDIBLE museum. The sprinkles pool looked interesting – I wonder what it is like to ‘swim’ in there. Also I think getting an ice cream as an entrance ticket is such a neat idea. The owner should definitely consider opening it for longer, especially if the demand is so high.
Omg I have never heard of an Ice cream exhibit before. It sounds like so much fun with the sprinkle pool, miracle berry and all. Hope I get a chance to visit it someday.
This looks like brilliant fun. I went to an ice cream shop in Girona where you could play with the machines. I’ve always wanted to create my own. Love the ice cream as your ticket too!
Wow, I didn’t even know they had a Museum of Ice Cream! I would like to try the edible balloons. Which exhibit did you like that most?
That’s so cool. I’ve never heard of a museum of ice cream before. But that sure looks fun!
This is just so extraordinary I want some miracle berries and a visit now. What a great concept it needs to be available in every major city in the world it would make us better humans….lol…
I love these pop up museums. I’ve been to a few in Los Angeles, but this one really has them beat. I mean who doesn’t love ice cream?!?!? I love museums that are interactive with plenty of photo op opportunities. You’re so lucky you got a ticket to this!
This looks like so much fun! What a cool idea!