Meow Wolf Las Vegas' Omega Mart
Tourist attraction · L.V. Meadows ·
Interactive art installation with surreal supermarket & hidden worlds
Interactive art installation with surreal supermarket & hidden worlds
"An interactive, psychedelic art experience that starts as a quirky grocery-store facade and invites visitors to travel into another dimension while solving a surreal mystery." - Matt Villano
"The Las Vegas exhibition is anchored by a large, bizarre supermarket build-out that serves as the central conceit and setting for that location's immersive narrative." - Nadia Chaudhury
"A grocery-store-meets-art installation from Meow Wolf that feels more like immersive art than a conventional market: Omega Mart contains four themed areas and roughly 60 installation-filled rooms or portals to other worlds, with more than 250 projects created by over 325 artists, offering surreal, zany products and dozens of environments to explore." - Eater Staff
"Framed as “America’s Most Exceptional Grocery Store” by Santa Fe–based Meow Wolf, Omega Mart is a 52,000-square-foot art installation that masquerades as a big-box grocery store and contains four giant themed areas plus 60 additional installation-filled rooms, terrains, and portals created by more than 325 artists including Beach House, Brian Eno, Amon Tobin, Shrine, and Android Jones. I started in a supermarket-style space stocked with over 100 custom products — Wake Up Please! Energy Drink, Whale Song Antiperspirant/Antidepressant, Nebula Loaf, and Americanized Beef among them — then explored the Dramcorp Offices on the second level, a Tron-inspired look inside a fictional family-owned corporate entity behind Omega Mart; The Factory, which showcases Dramcorp’s mysterious operations and bizarre production procedures used to make the store’s signature products; and the Projected Desert, an immersive two-story video projection artwork. Tickets are available online, and Omega Mart (along with the hidden bar Datamosh) follows a schedule of Monday–Thursday 3–10 p.m., Friday 3 p.m.–midnight, Saturday 10 a.m.–midnight, and Sunday 10 a.m.–10 p.m." - Susan Stapleton
"When I stepped into Area15, I discovered a crazy new grocery-store experience filled with zany products and art installations that bills itself as “America’s Most Exceptional Grocery Store.” The space contains four themed areas and roughly 60 installation-filled rooms, terrains, and portals to other worlds created by more than 325 artists, including Beach House, Brian Eno, Amon Tobin, Shrine, and Android Jones, with additional works by Alex and Allyson Grey and Claudia Bueno. I started in a big-box–style grocery area stocked with over 100 custom products such as Wake Up Please! Energy Drink, Whale Song Antiperspirant/Antidepressant, Nebula Loaf, and Americanized Beef. On the second level, the Dramcorp Offices offer a look inside a fictional family-owned corporate entity behind Omega Mart in a Tron-inspired office space, The Factory showcases Dramcorp’s mysterious operations and bizarre production procedures used to make Omega Mart’s signature products, and the Projected Desert is an immersive two-story video projection artwork; the exhibition also includes the bar Datamosh. Omega Mart is open 3–9 p.m. Monday–Thursday, 3 p.m.–midnight on Friday, 10 a.m.–midnight on Saturday, and 10 a.m.–8 p.m. on Sunday, and tickets are available for pre-purchase ($45 general admission; $40 for children, seniors, and military; $35 for Nevada residents; $30 for Nevada children, seniors, and military)." - Susan Stapleton