Squeals of delight echo in this museum, where children are always hard at play

ROCHESTER - The Fun House, its floor tilted at an 18-degree angle, is instantly disorienting. Most people who enter lean against the walls to escape its dizzying clutches.

Not 5-year-old Gabrielle Cutrona. She let out a yelp and ran right through it. Her 4-year-old sister, Georgia, and their two cousins were soon in wobbly pursuit.

“It makes me feel like I'm flying,” Gabrielle said with a gleeful gasp after her fifth dash across the optical-distortion room at the Strong National Museum of Play.