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Become Part of the Art

FIRST OPENED IN 2018 in Chicago, WNDR Museum is a departure from the traditional museum experience. Recently launching its second location in San Diego (Boston and Seattle are next), WNDR is an immersive, multidimensional adventure. It boasts more than 20 multisensory installations and exhibits by acclaimed designers, technologists and artists; visitors essentially become an extension of each creator through interaction and participation. For example, WNDR Studios’ “Light Floor,” which comprises hundreds of pressure sensors, reacts to your every move as you dance across it. “INSIDEOUT,” a multimedia piece by artist Leigh Sachwitz (flora&faunavisions), is a

360-degree “enveloping” experience (you’ll step inside a shed)—using light, sound and video to evoke Sachwitz’s childhood memories of thunderstorms (and the ”calm” before and after them). All ages are welcome, and no two museum visits—each lasting around 75 to 90 minutes—are the same.

422 Market St., downtown, wndrmuseum.com

A REFRESHING departure from human selfies, “wildlife selfies” are just plain fun. A new exhibit at the San Diego Natural History Museum (aka the Nat), Caught On Camera, captures “wildlife when no one’s watching.” Peruse fascinating images of bobcats slinking through backyards; bats skimming and sipping water; a coyote roaming Westlake Village; squirrels in flight, caught mid-leap; and much more. Presented in English and Spanish, the exhibition gives insight to the importance of camera footage (aka “camera traps”) in understanding and protecting creatures and ecosystems. Animal lovers are also welcome to submit their own wildlife photographs via the Nat’s website. 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619.232.3821, sdnhm.org

THE SPRING 2023 season of San Diego Opera does not disappoint—bringing us three riveting productions. Don’t miss Tosca the tempestuous opera by Giacomo Puccini—at the San Diego Civic Theatre (March 25, 28 and 31; and

April 2). Fueled by passion and jealousy, the murderous melodrama takes us to Rome, where Floria Tosca—a beautiful, privileged diva of an opera singer—gets trapped in between her allegiance to her rebel lover and the scheming, corrupt police chief. Soprano Michelle Bradley sings the title role; with bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as Scarpia; and tenor Marcelo Puente as Cavaradossi. At the Balboa Theatre, Ghosts (April 1416) comprises three, oneact, horror-inspired operas by Nicolas Reveles; and Zach Redler’s The Falling and the Rising (May 12-14) centers on an unnamed female soldier—who is wounded by a roadside explosive device—and whose fate hangs in the balance. sdopera.org