# Museum of Illusions: Agent-Direct Score B (81.5%)

Site: https://newyork.museumofillusions.us
Report: https://directindex.org/r/museumofillusions.us
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Museum of Illusions is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Museum of Illusions. It finds no menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://book.newyork.museumofillusions.us/booknow/en-us/home (on the business's own site)

## What to fix first
- **No tickets and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what does it cost and when' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with tickets, times and prices as text and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+2 points) Missing: telephone. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Museum",
  "name": "Museum of Illusions",
  "url": "https://newyork.museumofillusions.us",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "8th Avenue 77"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7396591,
    "longitude": -74.0028554
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://book.newyork.museumofillusions.us/booknow/en-us/home",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address, opening hours
- **Tickets on your own site.** Agents can buy tickets without a marketplace in the loop.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (C then)
- Fixed: No booking or ordering path at all
- New: nothing

## Where it stands
5 of 134 in New York tours, attractions and museums. Top 4% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 7% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 0% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 14% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Ground Zero Museum Workshop (C, 368 m, https://directindex.org/r/groundzeromuseumworkshop.org); Rubin Museum of Art (F, 434 m, https://directindex.org/r/rubinmuseum.org); Chelsea Market (F, 503 m, https://directindex.org/r/chelseamarket.com); Little Island (D, 703 m, https://directindex.org/r/littleisland.org); Yeshiva University Museum (D, 783 m, https://directindex.org/r/yumuseum.org); Poster House (B, 914 m, https://directindex.org/r/posterhouse.org); The High Line (F, 927 m, https://directindex.org/r/thehighline.org); The Museum at FIT (B, 1069 m, https://directindex.org/r/fitnyc.edu); Chelsea Flea Market (C, 1147 m, https://directindex.org/r/findthemarkets.com); Center for Architecture (C, 1268 m, https://directindex.org/r/centerforarchitecture.org).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 2026-10-14 59%, 2026-10-15 82%.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 58% (29% A or B, 36926 sites); This site 81.5%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/museumofillusions.us/agent-view

Read by AI agents 2 times this month.

## Businesses like Museum of Illusions in New York tours, attractions and museums

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in New York tours, attractions and museums | 134 | 46% | 13% | 81.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress in New York tours, attractions and museums | 66 | 55% | 21% | 81.5% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in New York tours, attractions and museums: Staten Island Children’s Museum (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/sichildrensmuseum.org); My Travel To New York (B 83.8%, https://directindex.org/r/ilmioviaggioanewyork.com); Great American Charters (B 82.5%, https://directindex.org/r/greatamericancharters.com); Skyscraper Museum (B 81.3%, https://directindex.org/r/skyscraper.org); Steere Herbarium (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/nybg.org).

With the two fixes above (No tickets and prices found; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 134 in New York tours, attractions and museums.

## The direct record
What agents get for Museum of Illusions, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/museumofillusions.us
- Book: https://book.newyork.museumofillusions.us/booknow/en-us/home (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: none on record
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/museumofillusions.us/book

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no
- MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no
- Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 13 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/museumofillusions.us
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: yes
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/museumofillusions.us/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/museumofillusions.us/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=museumofillusions.us&force=1