Imagine if you could experience a painting by actually stepping inside the scene. Visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago last winter could do just that! Artists re-created Vincent van Gogh’s famous paintings of his bedroom as a real, life-sized room. As an added bonus, guests could rent the room for $10 a night. 

The artists also translated the color and texture of Van Gogh’s brushstrokes. For example, they outlined the edges of a chair with black paint to replicate black shadows created in the painting.