We were able to visit Otherworld in Columbus, Ohio — it’s 32k sq ft in what was probably an old K-Mart or similar in a run-down shopping center — of what’s rightfully explained as an immersive experience, annnnd so immersive that after :45 or so, we were all ready to get back into the ‘real world’. That sounds more critical than I mean it, though. Sure, it probably something that most of us will want to do only once, but it was absolutely worth doing, and was really fun just to explore. I’ve really wanted to try something like this since I heard of Meow Wolf‘s Omega Mart and others.
We’ve done the traveling grand-scale Beyond Van Gogh exhibit in Birmingham
and the permanent Monet & Friends Alive at the Indianapolis museum (post coming soon)
Oh! And I almost forgot Candytopia that was in Atlanta
Back to Otherworld:
Not like this but absolutely immersive in another way is one of my favorite exhibits of all time, Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors, which we saw at the Frist in Nashville. It’s at SFMOMA through June 2024
