Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Bridgeworthy: Exploring the Surreal at the WNDR Museum Downtown San Diego

If you’re looking for a unique and immersive artistic experience, then be sure to check out WNDR Museum in downtown San Diego, just ten minutes from Coronado. You’ll find engaging and transformative hands-on exhibits that allow the visitor to inhabit the mind of the artist. It’s a surreal adventure in technology and art, with all the feels.

WNDR is located at 422 Market Street, and features more than a dozen interactive experiences. Visitors will find lots of exhibits to engage with, including the innovative and Instagram-worthy light floor lined by infinity mirrors.

Another highlight is the exhibit called INSIDEOUT. The immersive 360-degree video, light and sound experience is based on the artist’s experience growing up in Scotland with the turbulent rush of thunderstorms erupting even in the middle of a peaceful day.

Guests can go in the INSIDEOUT exhibit and experience the onset of a storm.

And then there’s the Quantum Mirror which uses more than 150 mirrors and touches on our interaction with technology and our “obsession with screens, the way our self-perception has changed as social media becomes more important in our society,” according to the artist.

The Quantum Mirror Room immerses guests in more than 150 mirrors.
The jellyfish room is a cool place to unwind and become a part of the art.

The museum also boasts an interactive AI exhibit, where visitors can type in an idea, and they will see it come to life on six flatscreen displays. It’s a commentary on AI to see how realistic or odd the results can be.

The WNDR Museum’s message is simple: we are all artists. It’s an invitation, too.

Tickets can be purchased on the WNDR Museum website.



Christine Van Tuyl
Christine Van Tuyl
Christine has been writing and telling stories since she could hold a crayon. She started working for The Coronado Times in 2020 just a few weeks before the global pandemic, and it’s only gotten more exciting! She graduated from UCSD with a degree in Communications and earned her Masters in Journalism from Harvard in May 2024. She has worked as a news writer for KUSI-TV, a reporter for the San Diego Community News Group and as an editor for Greenhaven Press. In Coronado, she writes for Crown City Magazine, in addition to reporting for The Coronado Times, where she covers education, social justice, health and fitness, travel and the arts. She loves a good human interest story and writing anything about animals. When she’s not working, you’ll find her at home with her husband, two teenage girls and English Bulldog, at the barn with her horse, or headed far away on a new travel adventure. You’ll also spot her at yoga, running along the Bay, walking dogs at PAWS or eating a burrito. Christine loves living in Coronado and always finds something to write about in this dynamic, exciting little town.

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