Name: The Puzzling Place
Rating: 5.0

The Puzzling Place

Puzzling Place, Keswick CA12 5DZ, England, UK

1-90 Years

Paid

Website

Contact

Message

Description

The Puzzling Place is a fun and interactive attraction in Keswick dedicated to the fascinating world of optical illusions. It offers a hands-on experience where nothing is quite as it seems, challenging how your eyes and brain work together. The attraction is suitable for all ages and is ideal for families, friends, and curious minds.

Visitors can explore the Anti-Gravity Room, Ames Room, Sideways Room, Hologram Gallery, and the Eyelusion Exhibition. Activities include interacting with over 50 optical illusion exhibits, experiencing visual tricks, sensory illusions, perspective changes, and walking through immersive spaces like the Light Tunnel and Walk-in Kaleidoscope. The attraction encourages playful interaction, photo opportunities, and shared discovery throughout the visit.

Entry prices are £4.75 for adults, £4.25 for children (16 and under), £4.50 for seniors (65+), and free for under 5s. A family ticket (2 adults + 2 children) costs £16.00, offering good value for group visits.

Overall, The Puzzling Place delivers a highly entertaining and mind-bending experience. It combines learning, fun, and surprise in a compact indoor setting. This attraction is perfect for a memorable visit that will leave guests laughing, questioning reality, and wanting to explore more.

Features

Paid
Host birthday parties: No

Features

Anti Gravity Room

Being the only room of its kind in the country, the ‘Anti-Gravity Room’ is a fun and social excursion into the wonderful world of sensory illusions. Balls roll uphill, water flows at an unnatural angle. In the room, every one appears to stand at an impossible slant and lean effortlessly into space without falling.
Even when you know the secret, the effects are no less amazing. There is no smoke and mirrors here, the illusions are all in your mind but happening to everyone present.
The room is completely static but when you enter the room you will feel strange as your brain and eyes come into conflict and make sense of it all. It’s an experience which needs to be seen to be believed.

Ames Room

Watch yourself visibly grow and shrink or make a friend look tiny alongside you. The Ames Room is a deformed room that creates an astonishing illusion. When you look inside, although the room is heavily distorted it appears completely normal with parallel walls and horizontal floor and ceiling.
This is because the brain has been conditioned to assume that walls of rooms are parallel. The assumption is so strong it completely overrides the fact that people are changing size, even though in the real world this obviously doesn’t happen. Here your brain is willing to accept it as the assumption of parallel walls is much stronger!

Eyelusion Exhibition

In our Eyelusion Exhibition, many of the best optical illusions around can be explored through interactive exhibits, artwork and sculptures. In it you’ll find the ’Anti-gravity Drip’ and our 'Perspective Chair', as well as our 'Light Tunnel' and 'Walk in Kaleidoscope'.
You can shake your own hand, rub out your friend and watch your skin crawl. You’ll come across impossible objects that defy common sense, static images that move and straight lines that bend.
You can see yourself as others do, look down the bottomless chest and be tracked by our following faces! With over 50 exhibits and ’pieces of strange’ to unleash a moment of astonishment for you, you’ll be left rubbing your eyes in disbelief!

Hologram Gallery

Holding over 60 holograms, in our gallery you’ll find hologram portraits, horror-grams, and images that change, appear and disappear before your eyes. You’ll see 3D puzzles build themselves, relics being stolen and Esher’s tessellating Reptiles come to life as you change your viewing angle.
Our captivating array of holograms or 3D pictures project into space, leading to the irresistible urge to reach out and touch - only to find that your hand passes straight through!

Sideways Room

Take a room and give it a twist! A 90 degree twist to be precise! This is a great little space to have some fun, interact with friends or family and take some crazy looking snaps!
You're limited only by your imagination in our Sideways Room!

Website

Contact

Price

Price: Paid

Price Details

Adults £4.75
Children (16 and under) £4.25
Family (2+2) £16.00
Seniors (over 65's) £4.50
Under 5’s Free

Pricing URL: https://www.puzzlingplace.co.uk/info

Birthday Parties

Offer Birthday Parties: No

All Local School Holidays: Open 7 days a week, 10am to 5.30pm (Except Christmas Holidays - 11am to 5pm)
Winter Hours 1st Nov to 19th March: Open 11am to 5pm but closed Mondays
Summer Hours 20st March to 31st Oct: Open 7 days a week 11am to 5.30pm

Closed Monday to Friday throughout January

Address: Puzzling Place, Keswick CA12 5DZ, England, UK

Post Code: CA12 5DZ

Council: Cumberland

County: Cumbria

From Keswick's pedestrianised town centre, head down the street until the pedestrianisation ends at a pelican crossing and you can see 'Blacks' outdoor shop on the left. Museum square is the alleyway down the side of side 'Go Outdoors', and we are halfway down on the left, up some stairs. Unfortunately due to our location in the town centre we have no parking. There are several car parks just two minutes walk from our door however.