NYC’s Met Museum Recreates the Iconic ‘Psycho’ House

I remember watching this movie for the first time, like it was yesterday. I was maybe 12 and my cousins told me it was fun and scary… “right up my ally” I thought. They were not wrong, scary it was! Alfred Hitchcock’s original Psycho (1960) has a deceptively simple but unforgettable plot, and Bates Motel remains in your nightmares forever. Now the Bates’ home has been recreated. Read on, and be sure to catch the photos at the end they are eerily familiar. ~Bill

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By Nick Caruso
In the summer, the roof garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art comes alive thanks to its many outdoor exhibits that offer 3-D renderings that often immerse its spectators. This year has proven no different with British artist Cornelia Parker’s “Transitional Object (PsychoBarn),” a recreation of Norman Bates’ freaky-deaky home featured in the iconic Alfred Hitchcock film, “Psycho.”

Parker claims to to be influenced by not only Hitchcock, but also Edward Hopper, an artist renowned for his rural landscape paintings frequented by odd barns and other assorted old structures. For her piece, Parker used reclaimed wood from an actual barn, aiming to spark contrast between the “wholesomeness” of a Hopper painting and the eerie tone of the famous Hitchcock film.

The exhibit is now open and will be available to view (ironically enough) through October 31.