<strong>SPYSCAPE: </strong>Putting the class into classified, a sleek new spy museum has opened in Midtown Manhattan. The immersive experience includes testing your agility and reaction times in its special ops laser tunnel.
SPYSCAPE: Putting the class into classified, a sleek new spy museum has opened in Midtown Manhattan. The immersive experience includes testing your agility and reaction times in its special ops laser tunnel.
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<strong>Find your inner spy: </strong>Visitors are assigned unique digital wristbands upon entry so they can complete challenges and build up their own particular set of skills.
Find your inner spy: Visitors are assigned unique digital wristbands upon entry so they can complete challenges and build up their own particular set of skills.
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<strong>Themes:</strong> The design of each of the seven themed galleries is "unique and bespoke," says Josh Ellman, head of communications for David Adjaye's architecture firm Adjaye Associates. These visitors are completing a cipher challenge in the Encryption gallery.
Themes: The design of each of the seven themed galleries is "unique and bespoke," says Josh Ellman, head of communications for David Adjaye's architecture firm Adjaye Associates. These visitors are completing a cipher challenge in the Encryption gallery.
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<strong>Surveillance:</strong> "My personal favorite element is the surveillance gallery," Ellman tells CNN Travel. It's a "round steel drum, really dramatic."
Surveillance: "My personal favorite element is the surveillance gallery," Ellman tells CNN Travel. It's a "round steel drum, really dramatic."
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<strong>Big Brother: </strong>Inside the drum, visitors encounter a 360-degree projection of live and prerecorded CCTV imagery, "which is completely unexpected," says Ellman. A real-time exercise then tests powers of observation.
Big Brother: Inside the drum, visitors encounter a 360-degree projection of live and prerecorded CCTV imagery, "which is completely unexpected," says Ellman. A real-time exercise then tests powers of observation.
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<strong>Deception:</strong> In the Deception gallery, visitors learn about Robert Hanssen, who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence against the US for 22 years, then test their people skills in the Interrogation Stations.
Deception: In the Deception gallery, visitors learn about Robert Hanssen, who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence against the US for 22 years, then test their people skills in the Interrogation Stations.
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<strong>Artifacts: </strong>The Encryption gallery contains genuine Enigma machines (intact and destroyed and a Bombe Machine replica (pictured right) used in the film "The Imitation Game," about British computer scientist Alan Turing's wartime code breaking work at Bletchley Park.
Artifacts: The Encryption gallery contains genuine Enigma machines (intact and destroyed and a Bombe Machine replica (pictured right) used in the film "The Imitation Game," about British computer scientist Alan Turing's wartime code breaking work at Bletchley Park.
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<strong>Debrief: </strong>In the debriefing gallery, visitors find out whether they're best suited to being an agent handler, cryptologist, hacker, intelligence analyst, intelligence operative, special ops officer, spycatcher, spymaster, surveillance officer or technical ops officer.
Debrief: In the debriefing gallery, visitors find out whether they're best suited to being an agent handler, cryptologist, hacker, intelligence analyst, intelligence operative, special ops officer, spycatcher, spymaster, surveillance officer or technical ops officer.
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<strong>Profiling: </strong>"We worked for a couple of years on our profiling system with [a] former head of training for British Intelligence, as well as some top industrial psychologists," Shelby Pritchard, SPYSCAPE's chief of staff, tells CNN Travel.
Profiling: "We worked for a couple of years on our profiling system with [a] former head of training for British Intelligence, as well as some top industrial psychologists," Shelby Pritchard, SPYSCAPE's chief of staff, tells CNN Travel.
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<strong>Shop, cafe and event space: </strong>The book shop has a collection of more than 1,000 related spy titles, while the gift shop sells smart tech and quirky gadgets.
Shop, cafe and event space: The book shop has a collection of more than 1,000 related spy titles, while the gift shop sells smart tech and quirky gadgets.
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