The Museum Of Ice Cream Is Coming To New York City, Complete With A Pool Of Rainbow Sprinkles
NBC- The inimitable Museum of Ice Cream is coming to the Meatpacking District for one month this summer, pledging to deliver a “lick-able, likeable, shareable ice cream-centric experience” through the end of August. The delectably creative establishment will set up shop at 100 Gansevoort Street, a few steps from the High Line entrance.
Curated by “a collective of ice cream obsessed designer, artists and friends,” according to a release, the interactive museum features a swimmable rainbow “sprinkle” pool, edible balloons, an immersive chocolate room and a collaborate massive ice cream sundae. Anyone who visits the museum, which will be open every day of the week but Tuesday from July 29 to Aug. 31, can seesaw on an ice cream scooper or swing on an ice cream sandwich built for two.
Admission, which includes ice cream, for one adult is $18. Admission for two adults plus ice cream is $30. Children younger than age 10 and senior citizens get a discount ($12). And anyone who shows up opening day between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. gets free admission and ice cream.
Holyyyyyy shittttttt. Get out of my head, Museum of Ice Cream founder. Edible balloons, a chocolate room, annnnnd a rainbow sprinkle pool? Willy Wonka just came himself. Since man evolved into the being that he is today, dreams of swimming in a pool of food or drink has always been at the top of the list, right alongside the pool of money a la Scrooge McDuck and the chick from Christmas Vacation swimming in an old fashioned pool (as well as Phoebe Cates obviously for my OGs). I am deeming this museum Anything Is Possiblllllllle Vine worthy.
That being said, I have tempered my expectations. For one, if you aren’t the first person in that pool of sprinkles, it is forever tainted because that pool will have some other New Yorker’s stink all over it until the day it dies. Second, if the pool is really filled with those round sprinkles, it is bullshit. Round, crunchy sprinkles should be named something completely different. Namely something with the word “trash” in it. Flat sprinkles like the ones below are somewhere between a million and a billion times better than round, crunchy sprinkles and I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve had a handful of sprinkles as a dessert more than a few desperate times in my life.
And finally if this place is actually as incredible as it is in my dreams, there will be lines as long as the eye can see just like anything that is above average in this overcrowded metropolis. But still, a pool full of sprinkles is proof that God is real and he loves us. The fact that it will be in the middle of New York City is proof that he has a sense of humor.
P.S. As someone raised by someone that has built pools his whole life, I am firmly #TeamInground for life. And not just because they are nicer and I grew up with them (one of the benefits of being in the industry, nbd). Ingrounds have muchhhh better pool basketball hoops and the “jump and catch the football” game can only really be played in an inground. Those are easily the two best pool sports ever. However, making whirlpools in above ground pools is and always will be awesome.