House of Eternal Return In January 2015, author
George R. R. Martin pledged $2.7 million to renovate and lease a vacant bowling alley to create a permanent facility for Meow Wolf. This was supplemented by additional funding, including $50,000 from the city of Santa Fe and $100,000 from a crowd-funding campaign. The installation, called
House of Eternal Return opened March 18, 2016. It received a 2017 Thea Award from the
Themed Entertainment Association and has been cited as the tenth best music venue in the United States. Multiple musical acts have filmed music videos at
House of Eternal Return including
The Revivalists and
T-Pain.
''Meow Wolf's Kaleidoscape'' 2018 Meow Wolf's
Kaleidoscape, an "other-worldly"
dark ride based around the concept of entering a piece of art, was announced for
Elitch Gardens Theme Park in
Denver, Colorado, replacing
Ghost Blasters. The exhibit debuted during Elitch Garden's 2019 summer season; the
Denver Post described Kaleidoscape as "a hallucinogenic gallery of neon art." The attraction was intended as a prequel to their Denver exhibit,
Convergence Station, with the ride experience being focused around the Quantum Department of Transportation harnessing the power of a
Cosmic Egg to open a path to a new universe.
Omega Mart In January 2018, Meow Wolf announced a second interactive art installation in
Las Vegas, Nevada as anchor attraction at a new retail, art and entertainment complex called
Area15. Opened in 2021,
Omega Mart is a multisensory grocery store that blends narrative storytelling, technical wizardry, and commerce.
Omega Mart aims to guide guests into fantastical areas with themes examining American
consumerism and corporate responsibility. The exhibit features more than 325 writers, painters, sculptors, actors, lighting designers, musicians and more. The
Omega Mart concept was reused from an earlier temporary installation in Santa Fe. The exhibit follows the hypothetical corporation that owns Omega Mart, Dramcorp, in an alternate dimension. In this dimension, they harness a power titled "The Source" to continue to sell their products.
Convergence Station In 2018, Meow Wolf announced plans for a venue in downtown
Denver, Colorado, at I-25 and Colfax Ave. It opened September 2021. The building is Meow Wolf's largest installation, rising 30 feet over three elevated viaducts and employing more than 100 local artists (including indigenous artists) specializing in a wide range of media, including architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, video production, cross-reality (
AR/
VR/
MR), music, audio engineering, narrative writing, costuming, and performance. Convergence Station is presented as an interdimensional transport hub of the Quantum Department of Transportation linking Earth to the Convergence of Worlds, named for a cosmic Convergence event that resulted in fragments of four planets fusing together, consisting of the C Street of an
ecumenopolis named Immensity, the crystal mines of the Ossuary, the frozen world of Eemia, and a cosmic superorganism named Numina. It houses several exhibits, including a large-scale physical fabrication of
The Cathedral' that the company digitized for
The Infinite Playa, a recognized universe in the
Burning Man multiverse. A rotating exhibit of local artists is on display in ''Convergence Station's Galleri Gallery''; the first to be featured is Denver's Lumonics collective, with works from
light art pioneers
Mel and Dorothy Tanner.
Convergence Station also features tributes to Denver's "Gang of 19" (who would later become the organization
ADAPT) who played a central role in making mass transit accessible to disabled people.
Vortex Music Festival One of Meow Wolf's music festivals,
Vortex, was held in
Taos, New Mexico, in 2018 and 2019, then paused for two years due to COVID and moved to Denver in 2022.
The Real Unreal In May 2022, Meow Wolf announced its fourth permanent exhibition, located in
Grapevine (a suburb in the
Mid-Cities region of the
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex) situated in the
Grapevine Mills Mall in a former big box store. In May 2023, the name of the exhibit was revealed to be
The Real Unreal, and it opened on July 14, 2023.
The Real Unreal, conceived by author LaShawn Wanak, tells the story of Ruby and Gordon Delaney, who moved to the house in
Bolingbrook, Illinois, where Gordon taught music and Ruby cultivated a garden. As they aged, their daughter Carmen moved back home to care for them and started a spice blend company named Ruby's Garden. Carmen's friend LaVerne Fuqua and her son Jared also moved into the house. The exhibit reveals how the house amplifies the lives of its occupants and how it becomes a beacon for the family's energy during a crisis. Jared and Gordon befriend an imaginary character named Happy Garry, and Jared eventually goes missing through a portal in the closet. The exhibit explores the concept of
The Real Unreal, where imagination comes to rest and creativity can transform everything it touches. Visitors are invited to explore the house and the world beyond the portal to understand the mysteries and connections between these characters and the realms they encounter. Certain spaces within The Real Unreal may feel familiar to Meow Wolf devotees, as they harken back to the original Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, creating cross-exhibition connections and expanding the Meow Wolf story universe. Meow Wolf Co-Founder Emily Montoya reflects that the house and the concept of 'eternal return' are powerful motifs that catalyzed Meow Wolf's transformation from a scrappy art collective into the growing company it is today." Located in the
Fifth Ward of
Houston, Texas, Radio Tave tells the story of ETNL, a radio station mysteriously teleported to another dimension.
Future plans In May 2024, Meow Wolf announced it would open its sixth permanent location in
West Los Angeles, to be built in a
movie theater in the Cinemark Complex at Howard Hughes L.A. It is scheduled to open in late 2026. A seventh location, to be at the
South Street Seaport in southern
Manhattan New York City, was announced in March 2025. In June 2025, Meow Wolf announced plans to explore expanding the Meow Wolf Universe globally beyond the walls of physical exhibitions through a mobile application they're prototyping with
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