The Experience: you'll test your pattern-recognition and analytical skills as you try your hand at making and breaking codes in a dramatic interactive adventure.
The Museum: you'll meet the Cryptologists who shortened WWII by cracking the German Enigma machine. You'll find original Enigmas and tap out messages on a perfect replica. You'll explore real code books and code-breaking devices, and discover how encryption affects you today.
“Wonderfully creative, interactive, and stimulating”
- General David Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) Former Director of the CIA
The Experience: you'll test your empathy in an immersive lie-detection and lying simulation in high-tech zones using facial recognition and pulse-recognition!
The Museum: you'll meet the FBI Agent who sold secrets to the Russians for 22 years, and the man who caught him! You'll encounter cunning devices the CIA used to deceive foreign governments. You'll explore high-tech lie-detection machines, and see how deception surrounds us today.
"In a timely way, SPYSCAPE shows us what we know, but choose to ignore: that espionage and spying are not only the stuff of extraordinary tales or specialists’ tools. All 10-year-olds are spymasters now. “
- The New York Times
The Experience: you'll test your perception and observation skills in a real-time surveillance exercise powered by voice-recognition AI.
The Museum: you'll meet the female journalists who used their spy superpowers to free 2,000 slaves. You'll find gadgets that let anyone run a personal surveillance mission. You'll explore how governments and corporations use data surveillance on all of us, and what that might cost you!
"A modern twist on introducing people to the world of espionage. From governments’ mass collection of their citizen’s mobile data, to social media companies sharing details about their billions of users, to advertisers tracking us with cookies."
- Forbes
The Experience: you'll question your core principles and beliefs in an immersive chamber of activist hacking icons.
The Museum: you'll meet the teenager who broke into the CIA, and come face to face with the signatures behind Anonymous. You'll find the devices hackers use to break into corporations. You'll see how todays hacking groups are trying to change our political landscapes for good and evil.
“Visitors can hear real-life spy stories from the Enigma code-breakers to the teenager who hacked the CIA’s website.”
- Lonely Planet
The Experience: you'll get up close to the actual Stuxnet virus that the US and Israel used to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.
The Museum: you'll explore the dark side of the Internet: phishing, DDoS attacks and backdoor vulnerabilities, and the role they play in contemporary cyber operations.
“The future of museum experiences... espionage in a total design environment... one of the most thoroughly designed experiences I have encountered”
- Curbed
The Experience: you'll test your agility and speed in high-tech laser tunnels - and see if you can beat your friends!
The Museum: you'll meet the original “Q”, who inspired the James Bond character, and see some of his ingenious gadgets - and meet the brave women who parachuted behind enemy lines to put his devices to the test. You'll encounter exploding rats, pen daggers, flashlight grenades, suitcase radios and folding motorcycles, that fuelled the imagination of storytellers for decades.
“One of the hottest new attractions in New York. Participants will build skills in critical thinking, leadership, creativity, and agility (during the laser-dodging portion, that is!).”
- City Guide
The Experience: you'll explore the motivations of spies and the massive difference that good intelligence can make.
The Museum: you'll meet the "spy who saved the world” and the movie-star handsome Russian submarine Captain who refused to fire Nuclear missiles at the USA. You'll find a spy camera from the U2 spy plane, and the first pressurised flight-suit, alongside miniature cameras and equipment from both sides of the Cold War.
“You won't just be learning about the in's and out's of the spy world—you can explore how the traits you have could make you a spymaster.”
- Mashable
Over the course of 90-120 minutes you'll go on an interactive journey into the real world of spies and secrets, tackling authentic challenges designed by a former Head of Training at MI6.
After seven immersive zones of unrivalled edutainment you'll uncover your own spy superpowers, and see how they compare to real and fictional spies.
M20, M104 Northbound to 8th Ave W 52nd Street M20 Southbound to 7th Ave W 55th Street M7, M104, Southbound to 7th Ave W 54th Street
C, E to 50th St Subway Station
A, C, B, D to 59th St Columbus Circle
N, Q, R, W to 57th St Subway Station
There are three parking garages close:
300 W 55th Street
241 W 55th Street
230 W 55th Street
No - these are separate experiences and tickets to each are sold separately.
The SPY HQ experience typically takes people 1 to 2 hours to complete.
Tickets are non-transferable, non-refundable, and non-exchangeable. In the event of an unscheduled closure, visitors whose reservations have been affected can reschedule at no additional cost - see above.
The SPY HQ experience is not competitive. Its purpose is to provide an insightful and inspiring assessment of each individual participant’s skills and attributes.
Yea. Each participant’s responses and reactions are unique, every team member’s detailed personal profile will reflect their individual choices, scores, skills and attributes.
Yes. All backpacks and bags are required to be stored in lockers. Please limit the number and size of the items you bring. Storage lockers are 12” x 20” x 24”. Items that are too large for the lockers will not be permitted inside SPYSCAPE. Lockers are available free of charge.
Yes. All entrances, galleries, retail spaces, and restrooms are accessible via wheelchair and walker.
Yes. You can purchase bottled water on site, but no food.
SPY HQ is located within five minutes walking distance of: 50 St, 7 Av, 57 St-7 Av, and 59 St-Columbus Circle.
All SPYSCAPE experiences are designed for adults and teens but can also be enjoyed by people aged 8+.
Yes. Photography is allowed inside the SPY HQ experience but not currently in the SPYGAMES experience. Please tag @spyscape on Instagram, Facebook, and X if you post!
Yes. The easiest way is to click the reschedule link at the bottom of your booking confirmation email. If you cannot find that link you can email q@spyscape.com with full details of your booking.
You can book online for up to 20 participants. If you’d like to book a larger group, please use our inquiry form to receive space and cost options.