Imagine an old school fairground funhouse, now imagine it a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better.... welcome to Meow Wolf.
Meow Wolf is an American arts and entertainment company that creates large-scale interactive and immersive art installations, their exhibitions almost defy description. The Santa Fe-based immersive entertainment company creates one-of-a-kind spaces that combine story telling with massive multimedia installations.
They are at the forefront of immersive, innovative, and interactive experiences. With locations in Las Vegas, Santa Fe, and Denver, where visitors can explore extraordinary new worlds. Behind every door and within every corner is something new to discover in Meow Wolf’s colorful, surrealist universe. Founded in 2008, its flagship attraction, House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) facility, which includes a concert venue in addition to the main immersive art installation.
In 2021 their second installation, Omega Mart, opened in Area15 in Las Vegas. Two additional locations, both in Texas, are currently in the planning and construction phases, and are scheduled to open in 2023 and 2024. In 2022, Meow Wolf announced the formation of the Meow Wolf Foundation, which will focus on giving to the communities of new and existing Meow Wolf Locations.
Meow Wolf was founded in Santa Fe by dumpster-diving, fringe DIY artists who championed weirdness and challenged what was 'normal' in the art world. Frustrated by the lack of access to the art world, they formed their own collective. Their increasingly immersive, large-scale exhibitions opened a profitable niche in the arts industry as they morphed into a multi-million-dollar business with the support of Game of Thrones creator, George R.R. Martin. As the business grew so did their ambition and scope. The installations are conjured up by animators, sculptors, illustrators and painters, fabric artists, composers and actors, fiction writers, filmmakers, coders, metal workers, architects and builders, and any other form or performing and visual artist you can think of, basically a small army of creatives.
These installations are massive psychedelic mazes of beautiful art and absurdist spaces. The spaces are part original contemporary art, part sci-fi theater, and part film set. Every inch of these huge rooms is decorated and pumped up with pulsing light and sound effects. You’ll be dazzled by self-playing instruments, eerie catacombs, and lush alien landscapes. There are also secret doors, hidden experiences, and tiny cage-like rooms. If you’re get over-stimulated, there are some decompression rooms to escape the chaos.
To give the experience more depth, there is always an embedded narrative which you are invited to solve.
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