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The WNDR Museum opened on Market Street in the Gaslamp Quarter.

WNDR Museum General Manager Andy Grantz and KPBS reporter John Carroll are shown inside the"Inside Out" exhibit on Jan. 17, 2023.There is art that is not immersive, per se, such as a piece of a Keith Haring mural painted along FDR Drive in Manhattan in 1984. But the emphasis is definitely on interactive and immersive.

There is one room where the artist has imagined a pantheon of gods building their society. The eight minute presentation sees the society through to its destruction.The 134-year old Broker's Building at 4th and Market Street is now the home of the WNDR Museum. San Diego, Calif. Jan. 17, 2023. And there is one called"Inside Out," by Scottish artist Leigh Sachwitz. It’s a representation of a garden shed on her family’s property in Scotland. Through light and sound, Sachwitz imagines one of many powerful, quickly moving thunderstorms she witnessed from the shed as a child. Viewed from outsideLike other museums, the WNDR Museum entertains, enlightens and educates, but perhaps more than anything, it lives up to its name — in sparking a sense of wonder.

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