TeamLab Museum

If you love contemporary art, you may have heard of the digital art collective teamLab. These self-styled 'technologists' are more than just visual artists. This interdisciplinary team includes architects, engineers, programmers, CG animators, mathematicians, musicians, etc., allowing them to collaborate and create complex digital installations complex, highly interactive and engaging.

Teamlab Museum is divided into 5 areas

1- World Without Borders This is a place for you to experience that there is no boundary between art and visitors, people and works. The space here is arranged in a hazy setting. The digital art installations are constantly changing, displayed in real time, changing and transforming in response to human interaction in the area.

2 -Athletes Forest This is a space that encourages you to explore your surroundings with your body, promoting creativity and spatial awareness. It is also the most kid-friendly area, with many works and installations that involve jumping, sliding, bouncing, climbing, and generally using all of the energy that is full of people.

3-Future Park This is an area where you can experience creative collaboration. Here, you can actively interact in making art a reality.

4- Forest of Lamps Here, you will be in an infinity room filled with motion-sensitive lights.

5- Tea house EN Tea House This place seems like an Alice in wonderland with a little bit of weirdness, you will watch the flowers bloom in your cup of tea.

It's hard to see everything at the TeamLab Museum in one visit. You can find a long list of works in this museum. Some works move from room to room and are not always in the same place. You won't know when they appear in the room. Many artworks are rendered in real time by computer programs, and they're constantly changing - so you'll never see the same version of artwork twice. The variety and magic of creations from human intelligence makes you want to come back to this place again and again for new experiences and discoveries. These are the many favorite experiences at the Teamlab museum

- Wander in the Crystal World

This infinity room filled with shimmering LED strips made a big splash in 2016 when it first debuted at e-commerce conglomerate DMM.com's building in Roppongi. Now you can take exquisite selfies whenever you visit the teamLab Museum. Alternatively, you can download a museum app that allows you to control the color palette in this room - simply scan the QR code displayed at the museum entrance. There is also free WiFi throughout the museum

- Cave Universe

You'll know you've found the Cave Universe when you encounter a space with slightly curved walls, starting from the floor up. This space can make you slightly dizzy - passing artwork will move across the floor you're standing on and around, as if you're floating in a cave-shaped universe. What a fitting name. Some works of art pass through this space, such as Walk, Walk, Walk: Infinity of Freedom and The Path of the Sea, Through Space - Colors of Life. Before it was Edo period characters spinning through the starry night sky, traditional folk music motifs were layered on top of a counterpoint resembling the sound of a harp. You'll then witness schools of glowing fish curling and twirling through the galaxy, with lots of emotional orchestral music, soaring and heavy, accompanying it. Both straddle the line between sheer creativity and induced hallucinations. Staff will point out the best place to enjoy the light shows that rotate across the walls. It's obviously less photogenic than some of the other pieces, but it's one of the many favorite spaces in the museum.

- Corridor Walls Keep an eye out for walls as you explore, especially if they look like normal hallways. This is where many works of art are 'transitioning' from one space to another. You can see parades of bunnies carrying frogs, rivers with lotuses or cherry blossoms passing by, animals made of golden flowers that flutter their wings to the touch.

- Infinity Glass Room This is a room filled with large glass panels hanging in rows. Several works of art originate from this space and float out into the hallway. For example the piece "Peace Can Be Realized Even Without Order" with each pane of glass containing a single dancer or musician who sometimes stops or reacts if someone passes by, the frame The scene makes us imagine hundreds of souls trapped in the physical world. At other times, you might see flowering animals lurking on glass panes or a sea of ​​giant, vibrant, pink lotus flowers in bloom.

-The Forest of Resonance Lamps Possibly the most photogenic space in the museum, this mirror room is filled with 1000 motion-sensitive lanterns hanging at different heights and spaces throughout, each of which emits light. soft light, changing from blue to pink, orange and green. While it's a dream come true when given enough time to enjoy the experience, it's also one of the most anti-climate works of art - brace yourself for a 45-minute queue get 2 minutes in this terrifyingly beautiful space. Once you're inside, almost all people are doing is going crazy taking photos and it's one of the most Instagram-friendly spaces in the museum.

Black Waves Balck Waves At some point, you will stumble across a circular room whose walls are filled with constantly crashing waves. You can lie down on one of the super-comfortable beanbags and have the waves disappear into the magical space. This is a great experience of meditation or you will simply immerse yourself in the hypnotic waves of the scene.

Topographic Memory Near Space Black Waves is this large room, filled with circular disks suspended from bent tree trunks. As you walk through the room, you'll look into a rice field of all kinds, where you'll see projections of maple leaves, fireflies, insects, flowers and more, depicting the changing seasons. Sometimes, the fish can swim in from the outside. Music harmonizes with images to bring you unforgettable moments

The weightless forest of resonant life You will be impressed with the giant balloons and experience when trying to squeeze or walk around them.

Multi Jumping Universe Kids as well as adults love this show, although you'll almost certainly see more kids at this show. Jumping into a spot on a trampoline to create new planets or fly by, leaving a trail of stars behind is an extremely exciting and evocative experience.

EN Tea House Save this teahouse for the end of your visit, when you're tired of all the exploration. Located right in front of the entrance to the Athletics Forest on the second floor, you will pay ¥500 for a large cup of tea after which you will admire the digital flowers blooming inside your teacup. If you try moving the tea cup to drop the petals on the table. Take a sip, repeat. The flowers will bloom again as long as you have tea in the cup - infinitely.

NOTES WHEN VISITING TEAMLAB MUSEUM

Buy tickets in advance This is the first museum of its kind, with limited numbers available each day and tickets will sell out weeks in advance. Don't count on being able to buy tickets for the day - buy them from the official ticketing site.

Go after 3pm This is a relatively new museum and currently, it is most crowded during opening hours. But whether it's due to Odaiba's location (far from central Tokyo), people start thinking about dinner plans in the city around the late hour or families need to start returning home to their children. them, the museum tends to be less crowded after 3pm. (Please note, this may change in the future.)

Give yourself time to explore With over 50 works of art to see, there's much to experience at the teamLab Museum. You'll want at least 3-4 hours to wander around taking pictures, feel free to soak up the artwork, and line up for some of the more popular spaces. It's especially worth going back to spaces you've visited before .

Dress appropriately Wear trousers. While there's no real dress code, some galleries, like Crystal World or the Forest of Resonating Lamps, have mirrored floors, we recommend wearing long pants for maximum comfort.

Wear comfortable, flat shoes. Museum-goers wearing heels, clogs or other 'unstable shoes' will not be allowed into the Forest of Classics for safety reasons. In addition to the uneven ground, you can climb, jump, or slide in these spaces. Although you can rent sneakers for the day, sizes and quantities are limited, so avoid the hassle and wear your most comfortable shoes.

Wear light-colored clothes . This is a suggestion that only applies if you want Instagram-friendly photos of yourself or your friends. Colors and holograms show up better on lighter clothes. If you wear black, you will fade into the dark.

Pack light With the jumping and climbing you may be doing, this is not a place where you want to pack your bags. (Unless you have kids - in which case, bring anything you need besides a stroller.) Storage space in front and just bring a phone or small camera. You'll also want some cash - around 500 JPY - for a cup of tea at EN Tea House (details below) and maybe a little more for drinks at the vending machine. If you want a second cup of tea at the tea house, it will be 200 JPY. It's on the Japanese menu, not English yet - but ask for it anyway.

Touch Everything The basic rule in most museums, especially those in Japan that is heavily regulated, is DO NOT TOUCH THE ART. But at this museum, you're encouraged to interact and play with the digital artworks - touching some of the butterflies may scatter them, while tapping a samurai on the shoulder will make them turn or sleep fall asleep. It's not completely free for all. Even with the concept of 'borderless', this museum is not immune to having its own set of rules and regulations, as you will see on their website and on site. However, it's a refreshing change from most cramped museum spaces and an opportunity for people to let their hair and inner child out.

Open door :

Monday - Thursday : 11:00 - 19:00

Friday - Eve : 11:00 - 21:00

Saturday : 10:00 - 21:00

Sunday & Public Holiday : 10:00 - 19:00

Fare

Adult : 3200

Children : 1000

Address : 138 Odaiba Palette Town, Aomi, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo-to

Phone : +81-3-6406-3949 (From 10:00 to 18:00)

Website : borderless.teamLab.art