{"id":9405,"date":"2017-02-08T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumhack.wpengine.com\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2022-11-20T00:20:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T05:20:07","slug":"escape-the-met-experience","status":"publish","type":"do_not_index","link":"https:\/\/museumhack.com\/escape-the-met-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleuthing and Scavenger Hunts: Inside Museum Hack\u2019s \u201cEscape the Met\u201d Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you get when you combine the thrill of an Escape Room with the energy of a Museum Hack tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?<\/p>\n

A whirlwind, narrative-based, team building puzzle we call Escape the Met!<\/p>\n

What\u2019s an Escape Room?<\/h3>\n

For the uninitiated, Escape Rooms are a phenomenon that have taken the \u201cescape the room\u201d genre of video games and put the experience into a physical location.<\/p>\n

These rooms are filled with clues and elements that guests must utilize in order to \u201cescape\u201d in a certain amount of time; you\u2019re not actually<\/i> locked in, but it feels like it! Around the country (and around the world!), Escape Rooms have become a popular team building exercise!<\/p>\n

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Guests use pieces of \u201cevidence\u201d like these postcards to solve puzzles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What\u2019s Escape the Met?<\/h3>\n

Our Escape the Met experience — designed by tour guide Jen Browne — is Museum Hack\u2019s approach to the Escape Room concept, expertly paired with a dash of detective work.<\/p>\n

While we can\u2019t actually<\/i> lock our guests inside a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we sure can present a good sleuthing story!<\/p>\n

Guests are tasked with helping the Lead Detective (their Museum Hack guide) prevent an \u201cart heist.\u201d Cousins Marchesa and Mateo — members of the renowned (fictional) Marillo crime family — are art thieves and forgers that have set their sights on the Met\u2019s collection, and it\u2019s up to your team to stop them.<\/p>\n

How is Escape the Met different from traditional Escape Rooms?<\/h3>\n

A large part of the Escape Room experience is the expectancy of losing, but for our Escape the Met game, the goal is for everyone <\/i>to win. We want our guests to work together as a team and solve puzzles — and have a great time doing it!<\/p>\n

While many Escape Rooms are designed after settings like prison cells, spacecrafts, castles, and tombs, our game actually takes place in a real museum<\/i>. Guests on our Escape the Met experiences have the added bonus of getting to engage with awesome art in one of the greatest museums in the world.<\/p>\n

How does the experience work?<\/h3>\n

Every member of the team has an important role to play. They\u2019ll be divided into one of five different detective roles:<\/p>\n