All Meow Wolfs have secret passages, but we enjoyed the fact that this location has them hidden in typical household items, mixing every day with the bazaar.
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Explore the Coolest Fun House in the WorldĪs the name implies, this Meow Wolf is set up as a fun house full of secret passages and immersive art installations. Compared to Las Vegas (52,000 square feet), Denver (90,000 square feet), and Dallas Fort Worth (40,000 square feet), this smaller location also feels much more intimate and is easier to visit with young kids.
House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe was the first Meow Wolf and is the smallest at 22,000 square feet. Learn more in our Meow Wolf review of each location. It has since spread to include installations in Las Vegas and Denver. The Meow Wolf story began with a group of artists opening a permanent exhibition in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2016. We’ve visited Meow Wolf locations over the years and found them to be a part art museum, part children’s museum, part theme park, and overall unlike anything else we’ve experienced. Below, we give you our Meow Wolf review to help you decide which is best for you. Each of the three Meow Wolf locations offers its own unique take on an artsy, interactive experience. This kind of team effort does mean sacrificing some individual glory, but in exchange, the group has been able to create an experience that is quite literally larger than any one person.Meow Wolf is an immersive art experience not to be missed. Ray laughed, "I feel a chill in my spine to think: I have dental, you know?" Full-time artists (with co-pays!) who work on Meow Wolf installations. So, never did I think I would have a salary position getting to create beautiful art with a team of other creative people." "Before this job, I was a full-time artist during the day, and full-time server and bartender in the evenings. "I feel incredibly lucky," Schwartz said. The group is opening a space in Las Vegas next year, and in Denver in 2021.įor New Mexico creatives like Elena Schwartz and Mikey Ray, a gig with Meow Wolf offers a rare bit of artistic stability it offers insurance. The group now employs more than 300 full-time artists who are working on crafting pieces for new Meow Wolf installations. Visitors explore the Meow Wolf exhibition space without benefit of a map. That's what creates personal experience," Kadlubek said. Visitors are not given a map: "It's so important, I mean, giving audiences the opportunity to be scientists, to be explorers, to discover things on their own. It's art for people who might not otherwise want to go to a gallery. "The House of Eternal Return" has become one of Santa Fe's most popular attractions. Yes, the creator of Game of Thrones bought a bowling alley! You know, we're all these characteristics that didn't fit with the Santa Fe gallery style." Kadlubek said, "We're 20-somethings, we're punks, we're millennials, we're loud, we're grungy.
But when the group first formed in 2008, they were just a bunch of rowdy Santa Fe art punks. Today, Meow Wolf is raking in millions of dollars. Step into the refrigerator at "The House of Eternal Return," or crawl through a fireplace, and you will find yourself in a day-glo forest. "Imagine it being, like, sci-fi novel, but instead of reading it on the page you can actually walk inside of it, and you can explore it," said Vince Kadlubek, a co-founder of Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-based arts collective responsible for this immersive experience, a 20,000-square-foot exhibition space that contains everything from a musical mushroom forest to a neon Mastodon rib cage. "Come step into the refrigerator!" Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-based collective of artists, invites audiences to enter a whole different dimension, putting on exhibitions that tantalize with vivid visuals and storytelling that is magical, mysterious, or just plain bizarre. Step through the refrigerator, and you step into a whole different dimension.
"The House of Eternal Return" begins with what looks like – a house, an old Victorian. Let's just say there's no shortage of options when it comes to buying turquoise jewelry or scenes of sunsets and cowboys and cacti.īut, five miles away from the historic town square, there's an art experience unlike any gallery you've ever seen before.
The town is home to more than 250 art galleries and dealers, although there tends to be a common theme. Santa Fe, New Mexico is the third-largest art market in the country.
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