By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
A fun new experience at the Glore Psychiatric Museum will turn normal museum goers into detectives.
Murder at the Asylum gives everyone the chance to don their detective caps in order to figure out who murdered Doctor Harlow Mills at the old State Lunatic Asylum #2.
Group Tours Director Kami Jones says the experience is fully interactive and takes you through all four floors of the museum.
"You are given QR codes, you play it on your handheld device, and in each murder location you have a clue card, you have all of your suspects, your murder weapons, and in each suspected murder location there's a QR code that you actually get to watch a video, meet the suspects, and interact with that video," Jones tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "And then you have to try and figure out who done it."
Jones says the idea for the murder mystery actually started as a mystery murder dinner that would span one night, but from there she says it snowballed.
"We decided we wanted something that wasn't a here you have to come on this one night at this one time, we wanted to make it much more accessible and available to the public," Jones explains. "So, that's kind of where it snowballed from and has become what it is, and it's being very well received by the public."
Jones says currently museum goers can add the fully interactive experience to their museum trip, but people can also experience the game in a bigger way.
"If you and 10 of your closest friends want to come play, then you can actually book it after hours," Jones says. "And we will close the museum down, you have the whole museum to yourself, and with that one you do get a live character actress that actually comes in and does the whole intro and will guide you around."
The museum will hold a grand opening for the game on February 10th. Tickets can be purchased online.
