By JARED HAMM | Junior Reporter
Not much rain in Pacific Palisades, but it’s pouring at LA County Museum of Art.
This April I went to the Rain Room. The Rain Room is not a water park or drink stand, it’s an art exhibition. The Rain Room has 30-foot high ceilings from which rain falls inside the art gallery. You can walk slowly through it and not get wet.
Why? The Rain Room has sensors that allow the people to not get soaked due to the sensors turning it off before you walk under the area. When you walk slowly through the room you might get hit by drizzle but you usually stay dry.
But it’s not foolproof as when my older brother William decided to run through the Rain Room. When he got to the other side he was soaked and had to buy a Van Gogh T-shirt from the museum store.
In the Rain Room there is a light at the end that lets you see the rain falling and understand how it stops to allow you to walk through. Seeing it rain indoors puts things into a different perspective and seeing things in a different perspective is art.
The Rain Room is currently closed for renovation but reopens May 19. Tickets cost extra and do sell out so you must order in advance by calling the LACMA box office at 323-857-6010.
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