Is It an Art Gallery? A Museum? A Theater? A Dream?

Many banks offer sophisticated arrays of financial instruments. Few provide a chance to commune with the afterlife, to see into the future, to stand underneath a giant electronic nose that announces your particular smell: “You reek of poor financial decisions” or “Ah, fresh from the A.T.M. and regretting it.”

That nose perches above the ground floor of the Ministry of Awe, which unfolds across six stories of a 19th-century bank building in the Philadelphia neighborhood that was home to the nation’s first bank.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/theater/ministry-of-awe-philadelphia-immersive-theater.html