Visitors Ride 3-Story Slide at NYC Museum

      “Museum visit” takes on a whole new meaning at the New Museum in New York where visitors can ride a three-story slide that winds through the building or jump into a salty pool — in the buff — for an out-of-body experience.
       The “Experience” exhibit features the creations of German artist Carsten Holler. It opened Wednesday and runs through Jan. 15, allowing visitors to explore different sensations through Holler’s odd interactive works of art.

       The exhibit may be a first for museumgoers and for a museum. Visitors are asked to sign a waiver and are given helmets and elbow pads for the slide.
       Slides are Holler’s signature installations, and the 102-foot-chute at the New Museum is the only one he has created that cuts through a building’s interior.
      The slide is “a non-surprising environment, completely predictable,” Holler says. “Yet when you put yourself in it, you have to let go, losing control. You have no means of mastering the situation.