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[[At Colorado’s Adventure Room Selfie Museum, it’s the visitors who make the art, shooting social media videos and photos in a variety of colorful settings. For VOA, Svitlana Prystynska went to have a look.]]
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Transcript/Script Selfie Museum
HEADLINE: Visitors to Selfie Museum Make Art on Social Media
TEASER: Venue offers different scenes to shoot Instagram and TikTok videos and photos
PUBLISHED AT: 5/15/2022 at 4:28pm
BYLINE: Svitlana Prystynska
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DATELINE: Denver
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SCRIPT EDITORS: SKS, Holly Franko
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TRT: 2:16
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[[At Colorado’s Adventure Room Selfie Museum, it’s the visitors who make the art, shooting social media videos and photos in a variety of colorful settings. For VOA, Svitlana Prystynska went to have a look.]]
((Svitlana Prystynska to-camera in various rooms - FOR ENGLISH WEB VERSION ONLY))
Here you can take a picture in a flower room, play drums, feel like the Mona Lisa, sit on the legendary "Friends" couch, feel like a TV anchor and tell Littleton, Colorado, breaking news, or play Sweet Home Alabama.
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The Adventure Room Selfie Museum has more than two dozen installations for social media, including Facebook, TikTok and YouTube videos. Co-owner Lucy Zales says it is all about having fun.
((Lucy Zales, Adventure Room Co-owner))
“We wanted to combine funny things with backgrounds from our favorite movies and fairytales. Like our "Friends" room. This is our legendary idea and out Alice in Wonderland room. Also, we have a Western-style room, which we got the idea from Colorado.
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You pay to use the backgrounds with your own phone. Or you can hire a museum photographer and get help with different poses. This visitor brought his family.
((Vitaliy Khomyakov, Visitor))
“The awesome thing about this is, you don’t really need a professional photographer, but of course you can. It’s a very flexible place. My favorite one is the "Friends" room because I’ve seen the show so many times, and it brings back a lot of memories.”
((Jaden Zinc, Visitor))
“We took a bunch of pictures. We just really like this place. Our favorite thing about this place is the cowboy room over there — like the guitar, like wearing the hats — it makes us feel like actual cowboys.”
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Unlike most museums, you can touch everything – to see how electricity and plasma work in the legendary Tesla ball or to feel like you are sitting on a chair of nails.
((Daria Harper, Visitor))
“If you are trying to grow on Instagram or TikTok, this could be a great place to come record some content, take some great pictures. My nieces are coming over next month, so I am really excited to bring them here.”
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With one of the museum’s co-owners from Ukraine, Zales says it was hard to focus on opening their business during the war there. They say they are donating 10% of their proceeds to Ukrainian orphans.
((Lucy Zales, Adventure Room Co-owner))
“We also have a lot of friends from Ukraine whose families are still there in this terrible time, so we decide to help and support them in need.”
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Building on social media customers, the Adventure Room plans to expand to hosting parties and costume contests.
((Svitlana Prystynska, for VOA News, Denver)
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)Denver
Embargo DateMay 15, 2022 16:59 EDT
Byline((Svitlana Prystynska, for VOA News, Denver)
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
