Meow Wolf is adding two new locations by 2024, joining Denver, Las Vegas and Santa Fe

Meow Wolf will open a pair of recent immersive-entertainment installations over the subsequent two years, including to its portfolio of locations that already consists of Santa Fe, Denver and Las Vegas.

The Santa Fe-based firm introduced the brand new installations on Wednesday, naming each Grapevine, Texas, and Houston as the brand new places. The installations will open in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

“The Meow Wolf story universe is increasing, and Texas holds the keys to our subsequent chapters,” stated Jose Tolosa, CEO of Meow Wolf, in a press assertion. “Opening a everlasting exhibition within the largest and probably the most numerous states within the nation has been on Meow Wolf’s radar for years, and we’re excited to be formally underway.”

Meow Wolf has grown quick in recent times because it’s attracted lots of of thousands and thousands in funding {dollars}, increasing from Santa Fe’s Home of Everlasting Return exhibition — which opened in 2016 and has turn into a vacationer magnet with its surreal sculptures and environments — to Las Vegas’ Omega Mart and Denver’s Convergence Station, each of which opened final yr.

The timing of the brand new places signifies that the corporate can have quadrupled its public choices in about three years. However the brand new places have been deliberate for awhile, officers stated.

The Grapevine, Texas, exhibition will probably be situated in Grapevine Mills, “throughout the Dallas-Fort Price metroplex,” in accordance with the press assertion. “An actual identify for the exhibition will probably be introduced at a later date.”

The Houston exhibition will probably be within the Fifth Ward of Houston and is slated to open in 2024, with The Deal Co. as improvement companions.

“A historic district with a protracted historical past of numerous communities courting again to the late 1800s, the Fifth Ward has been reworked into an arts and cultural vacation spot in recent times, being designated a cultural district by the state of Texas in 2020.”

As a part of its psychedelic-flavored themes and advertising, the corporate is once more referring to the places as “portals.”

“We’ve by no means designed two exhibitions in the identical state on the similar time. The Texas experiences will probably be deeply rooted in artist collaboration and linked by hid Easter eggs,” stated Dale Sheehan, government artistic director, within the assertion. “In fact, the places themselves are additionally artistic prompts. In Grapevine, we’ll be leaning into the vitality of a shopping mall — a nostalgic place for many people, the place households collect and younger adults usually discover their first moments of freedom. In Houston, we’ll have interaction a burgeoning arts neighborhood in essentially the most numerous metropolis within the nation, which we imagine will end in a groundswell of revolutionary inventive expression.”

Meow Wolf has had about 3 million guests over the lifespan of its three present places, officers stated.

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