Museum of Ice Cream staying for good in San Francisco

Now here’s a scoop about scoops:

The insanely popular experience that is the Museum of Ice Cream announced Monday that it will extend its stay in San Francisco … “until infinity,” organizers said.

It’s the first permanent home for the museum that took New York and Los Angeles by storm before coming to San Francisco. Here, tickets for the first run sold out in 18 minutes. It’s since been extended a couple of times.

Over the last year, the San Francisco installation demonstrated it has both global and Bay Area allure: Half a million visitors from 65 countries visited the museum, officials reported.

What’s the appeal of the theme park-like exhibit besides the ice cream samples and a “pool” of sprinkles to frolic in?

“It’s like Willy Wonka married Mary Kay in Victoria’s Secret, moved to a house on a Candyland game board and adopted the Pink Panther, My Little Pony and Hello Kitty as pets,” our reviewer Angela Hill wrote when the museum opened.

Tickets, $38 (it’s the same price for adults and children), are now on sale for visits through December 2018. Advance admission is required to the sweet galleries at 1 Grant Ave.

New “installations, tastes and experiences” are planned for MOIC 2.0 in 2019 — and you can bet they’ll be Instagram-worthy.

Details: You can follow the progress and buy tickets at www.museumoficecream.com.

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