SelfieTown, the first museum in the Canary Islands dedicated to selfies, has opened in the chicharrera capital to the delight of lovers of posturing on social networks. Inside of Tenerife selfie museum DIARIO DE AVISOS has been this week to document what this new leisure offer on the Island is all about and this is what we have found: more than 40 walls decorated in different ways, tripods and rings of light that invite you to take photos until you run out the mobile battery.
Behind this project are Emilio Diaz and Lorraine Gonzaleztwo people from Tenerife who one day, watching a magic show on television, had their “light bulb” turn on: “I remember that we were watching a magician perform a trick and, in the background, they used a selfie museum as a set, which is in the USA. Those images caught our attention”, say the partners founded by SelfieTown.
That same night, recalls Lorena, they got to work investigating the existence of sites dedicated to selfies in Spain and found that this ‘fever’ for the museums of selfies in the country had just begun. In addition to two museums, one located in Madrid and the other in Barcelona, they hardly found any antecedents. After discovering this business opportunity, the next day they got up and started looking for available premises in Tenerife, designing logos and developing the idea.
“We chose this site because it is accessible, you can enter with a wheelchair or baby stroller. For us that was something very important”, explains Lorena. However, they had to do a lot of work before everything was ready for the opening on March 4: “This used to be a spa, so we had to convert everything. There were a lot of tiles and bathrooms, a lot of things had to be removed, walls painted… ”, she relates.
In short, make it come true SelfieTown It has led the two founding partners to invest “many hours”, since both have their respective jobs, -she in the world of research and he in interior design-. However, due to “the reception it is having”, they consider that the effort “has been worth it”.
Visitors to the Selfi Museum in Tenerife exude originality
“So far it is being fascinating, we are very surprised because many people and even groups come every day… we believe that people are attracted to it because it is new,” says Emilio. Regarding the profile of these visitors, at first he thought that the place would appeal to teenagers, but the public with which they have really come across in this month of travel has been that of people between 27 and 45 years old.
Throughout the museum there are more than 40 different spaces to take photos, among which stand out a dark room with led lights, a wall full of records, some seats made with car wheels, a corner with old books or a room with pink confetti that hangs from the ceiling. In each space, users are free to pose as they wish, taking the tripods and rings of light to move around the place.
That yes, the sets will not remain like this forever: “We are asking to see which set is liked the most because the idea is that this is a living space, so there will be scenarios that will remain but there will be others that will change. We already have a lot of ideas to bring it to life”, advances Lorena.
Both Lorena and Emilio love to see how visitors discover which angles are best to get the most out of the museum and many tag them in their photos when they post them on social networks in what is a “word of mouth” that is already beginning to spread. run around the island virtually.
