Immersive Digital Art Venues Around the World Today, from Atelier des Lumières to ARTE MUSEUM

As of October 2026, immersive digital art venues that envelop a space in images and sound have spread across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. France’s Culturespaces operates venues bearing the “Lumières” name in 10 locations worldwide. South Korea’s d’strict has opened “ARTE MUSEUM” in eight cities, and teamLab has permanent venues in Abu Dhabi and Jeddah. Using the official websites and announcements of each company and venue, this article sets out the main operators and their venues’ locations, opening years, buildings and current programs.

The reason to look at overseas developments now is that these formats are arriving in Japan one after another. In June 2026, the 10th Lumières venue opened in Ariake, Tokyo, and on Wednesday, November 18, the ninth ARTE MUSEUM opens in Chita, Aichi Prefecture. About 70% of visitors to teamLab Borderless at Azabudai Hills are international visitors (August 2026 announcement), and immersive venues have also become tourist destinations.

Culturespaces’ “Lumières” series: Locations and buildings of its 10 venues worldwide

Culturespaces is a French company founded in 1990 that has been commissioned to operate sites such as the Palais des Papes in Avignon. In 2012 it began presenting digital images and music in a former quarry in southern France, and in 2018 it expanded to Paris (company website). According to a September 2025 announcement by TV Asahi, the series has drawn more than 21.5 million visitors in total (organizer’s figure).

The venues listed on the company’s website total 10: three in France, two in Germany, two in South Korea, and one each in the Netherlands, the United States and Japan. The two in South Korea are operated by the local company TMONET, and the Tokyo venue is organized by TV Asahi and PIA. The origins of the series are also traced in our article on the genealogy of immersive museums.

Atelier des Lumières (Paris)

Atelier des Lumières occupies the former Chemin Vert foundry, founded in 1835 by the Plichon brothers. The company, which made cast-iron parts for the navy and for locomotives, ran into trouble in the Great Depression of 1929 and was dissolved in 1935. The venue opened on April 13, 2018, and drew 1.2 million visitors in its first year (organizer’s figure).

Location: Paris, France
Opened: April 13, 2018
Operator: Culturespaces
Building: Former foundry (factory floor area 3,126 m²)
Main programs: “Ocean Planet,” a dive into the deep sea (from October 16, 2026), and “Renaissance,” featuring Da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo (through December 17)

Carrières des Lumières (Les Baux-de-Provence)

Carrières des Lumières is set in a quarry that opened in 1800 and closed in 1935. In 1959, Jean Cocteau filmed “Testament of Orpheus” there. The town entrusted its operation to Culturespaces under a public service delegation contract, and it opened in March 2012 with an exhibition on Gauguin and Van Gogh.

Location: Les Baux-de-Provence, France
Opened: March 2012
Operator: Culturespaces
Building: Former quarry
Main programs: “Picasso,” “Frida Kahlo” and “Ocean,” shown on different days of the week. A new work on Matisse from October 9

Bassins des Lumières (Bordeaux)

Bassins des Lumières uses a submarine base built by the German military during World War II. According to the official website, more than 6,500 people worked on its construction, a third of them Spanish Republican prisoners. The roof is 9 m thick. The official website describes it as the world’s largest immersive center, projecting images onto walls up to 12 m high using four 22 m-wide docks and other spaces.

Location: Bordeaux, France
Opened: 2020
Operator: Culturespaces
Building: Former submarine base. It also has the “Cube” (220 m², 8 m high), a soundproofed room showing contemporary works
Main programs: “Planète Préhistorique : Dinosaures” and “Matisse, La symphonie des couleurs”

Amsterdam, Dortmund and Hamburg

In 2022–2023, Culturespaces opened four venues, in Amsterdam, New York, Seoul and Dortmund (company website). It also opened in Hamburg in April 2025.

• Fabrique des Lumières
  Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Opened: April 22, 2022
  Building: The “Zuiveringshal” of the Westergasfabriek gasworks, completed in 1885
  Main programs: “Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo” and “Dutch Masters,” from Vermeer to Van Gogh, among others

• Phoenix des Lumières
  Location: Dortmund, Germany
  Opened: January 28, 2023
  Building: A former gas purification facility attached to the blast furnaces of the Phoenix West steelworks. According to the official website, the renovated hall covers 2,200 m²
  Main programs: “Matisse, The Symphony of Colors” (from September 19) and “Asterix & Obelix” (from October 10)

• Port des Lumières
  Location: Hamburg, Germany (inside Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier)
  Opened: April 2025
  Venue: More than 1,700 m² of exhibition space
  Main programs: “Monet” (from August 29) and “Asterix & Obelix” (from October 3)

Two venues in South Korea, and New York

Culturespaces opened the Jeju venue in 2018 in partnership with South Korea’s TMONET. The New York venue opened on September 14, 2022, with a Klimt exhibition. Its official website now presents it as a venue for private events, with projection mapping on two floors.

• Bunker des Lumières
  Location: Jeju, South Korea
  Opened: 2018
  Operator: TMONET
  Building: An underground bunker that was once a national communications facility
  Main programs: “Van Gogh, Starry Night” and “Gauguin – The Call of the Islands” (from Wednesday, April 8, 2026)

• Théâtre des Lumières
  Location: Seoul, South Korea (B1, Walkerhill Hotel & Resorts)
  Opened: One of the four venues opened in 2022–2023 (company website)
  Operator: TMONET
  Main programs: “Klimt, Gold in Motion” and “Gaudi, The Architect of the Imaginary”

• Hall des Lumières
  Location: New York, United States (49 Chambers Street)
  Opened: September 14, 2022
  Building: The former Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank building, built in 1909–1912 and used until 1969 (total area 25,000 sq ft)
  Current status: Presented as a venue for private events

South Korea’s d’strict and “ARTE MUSEUM”: From Jeju to New York and Nagoya

The operator of ARTE MUSEUM, d’strict, is a Seoul-based digital design company founded in 2004. It handles everything from content planning to system design, software development and operations management. It opened its first museum in Jeju in September 2020; as of its September 2026 announcement, it operated in eight cities worldwide, with cumulative visitors exceeding 12 million (organizer’s figure).

The theme shared by all its museums is “ETERNAL NATURE.” The first museum, in Jeju, uses a building that was once a speaker factory and presents 16 immersive media art exhibits. New York, Las Vegas and Dubai feature works titled “ARTE MUSEUM X MUSÉE D’ORSAY.” The large “GARDEN” space shows works specific to each city, such as “GARDEN NEW YORK IS ART” and “GARDEN LIFE OF UAE.”

Operator: d’strict (Seoul, South Korea)
Locations and openings: Jeju (September 2020), Yeosu (August 2021), Gangneung (December 2021), Chengdu (April 2023), Las Vegas (November 2023), Dubai (February 2024), Busan (July 2024), New York (September 2025), Nagoya (scheduled for November 2026)
Venue examples: A former speaker factory in Jeju, the second floor of The Dubai Mall, and 61 Chelsea Piers in New York
Main programs: “WATERFALL INFINITE,” “FOREST,” “GARDEN” and others

teamLab’s overseas venues: Abu Dhabi, Jeddah, Macao and Singapore

The art collective teamLab began its activities in 2001 and is made up of artists, programmers, engineers, mathematicians, architects and others. Unlike the Lumières venues, which project famous paintings, it builds its venues from its own bodies of work. The main overseas venues listed as permanent in the exhibitions list on its official website are as follows.

• teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi
  Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (Saadiyat Cultural District)
  Dates: Permanent, from Friday, April 18, 2025
  Organizers: Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, and Miral
  Concept: “Environmental Phenomena,” in which special environments are created and the phenomena those environments produce become the works
  Main works: “Massless Suns and Dark Suns,” “Morphing Continuum” and others

• teamLab Borderless Jeddah
  Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Culture Square in Jeddah Historic District)
  Dates: Permanent, from Monday, June 10, 2024
  Concept: A “museum without a map,” where artworks move out of rooms and mix with other works

• teamLab SuperNature Macao
  Location: Macao (Cotai Expo Hall F, The Venetian Macao)
  Dates: Permanent, from Monday, June 15, 2020
  Concept: A three-dimensional 5,000 m² space with varied floor heights, filled with works 8 m tall

• teamLab Future World
  Location: Singapore (ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands)
  Dates: Permanent, from Saturday, March 12, 2016

In Hamburg, “teamLab Borderless Hamburg: UBS Digital Art Museum” is planned, and the official website shows it as “Coming Soon.” Meanwhile, “teamLab Massless Beijing” ended on March 31, 2025, and “Story of the Forest” in Singapore ended on October 13, 2024. In the Saadiyat Cultural District, home to teamLab’s Abu Dhabi venue, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi also opens on December 11, 2026.

Frameless in London, Lighthouse Immersive in North America and Superblue in Miami

• FRAMELESS
  Location: London, United Kingdom (6 Marble Arch)
  Operator: FRAMELESS London Limited
  Venue: Four galleries in 30,000 sq ft, with music played through 158 surround speakers
  Main programs: More than 40 masterpieces shown in four themes, featuring artists such as Munch and Dalí, Monet and Van Gogh, and Kandinsky and Mondrian. There is also an exhibit that reconstructs Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel

• Lighthouse Immersive
  Presence: 21 cities in North America (official website). More than 7 million tickets sold (organizer’s figure)
  Main programs: “Immersive Van Gogh,” “Immersive Monet & The Impressionists,” “Immersive Frida Kahlo” and others
  Plans: Working with the City of Moreno Valley to convert a former Sears store in a mall into a cultural facility

• Superblue Miami
  Location: Miami, United States
  Opened: May 2021 (NTT Urban Development announcement)
  Venue: More than 50,000 sq ft
  Main artists: teamLab, James Turrell, Es Devlin, JR and others. teamLab’s “Every Wall is a Door” has been on view since May 20, 2021

Elsewhere, in London, Lightroom presents works projected onto four 11 m-high walls and the floor, and in Las Vegas the spherical venue Sphere is showing the immersive experience “The Wizard of Oz.” In Los Angeles, the AI art museum DATALAND opened in June 2026, and Meow Wolf is preparing to open its sixth permanent exhibition.

Expansion into Japan: Lumières in Ariake, ARTE MUSEUM in Nagoya and Superblue in Kyoto

The 10th Lumières venue is “RÊVE DES LUMIÈRES powered by EPSON,” which opened on Friday, June 12, 2026, on the 8th floor of TOKYO DREAM PARK in Ariake, Tokyo. It was planned by Culturespaces STUDIO and, according to the organizers, is the series’ first venue in Japan. In about 1,200 m², it uses more than 100 projectors and about 60 speakers to show works including a 40-minute piece on Van Gogh. Details are in our guide to RÊVE DES LUMIÈRES.

“Arte Museum Nagoya,” the ninth ARTE MUSEUM and the first in Japan, opens on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, in Shin-Maiko, Chita, Aichi Prefecture. Covering about 5,000 m², it places 18 works in 17 spaces, and its “GARDEN” shows “THE LEGACY OF LIGHT: NAGOYA” (d’strict announcement). Prices and other details are in our article on the opening.

South of Kyoto Station, Superblue Kyoto is scheduled to open in early 2027 next to teamLab Biovortex Kyoto (NTT Urban Development announcement). In Yokohama, “Impressionist Monet and Ukiyo-e” began at THE MOVEUM YOKOHAMA on Saturday, October 24. Design and creative direction are by Gianfranco Iannuzzi, whom the official website describes as having contributed since 2010 to the creation and development of immersive art centers from Paris to Seoul, Tokyo and New York. Developments in Japan are set out in our timeline of immersive venues in Japan.

Editor’s perspective

Lining up the overseas venues shows that programs circulate among locations. Matisse is screened in Bordeaux, Dortmund and Les Baux-de-Provence. “Asterix & Obelix” can be seen in Dortmund and Hamburg. Van Gogh is on view in Jeju and Tokyo, and Gaudí in Seoul and Tokyo. ARTE MUSEUM, too, has expanded by adding a city-specific “GARDEN” to a common theme.

The buildings’ histories also have something in common. A foundry, a submarine base, a gasworks, a bank: the vast spaces of buildings that have outlived their original purpose have become stages for projected images, and in recent years the format has spread to commercial facilities in Dubai and Hamburg. On the other hand, teamLab Massless Beijing has ended, and the New York venue is presented as a private event space. Even venues described as permanent can change shape. How Japan’s new venues combine updating their programs with making use of their buildings will be the issue going forward.

Frequently asked questions

How many Lumières venues are there worldwide?

There are 10 according to the list on Culturespaces’ official website, located in Paris, Bordeaux, Les Baux-de-Provence, Amsterdam, Dortmund, Hamburg, Jeju, Seoul, New York and Tokyo.

Where in the world can I see ARTE MUSEUM?

According to d’strict’s September 2026 announcement, it is in eight cities: Jeju, Yeosu, Gangneung and Busan (South Korea), Chengdu (China), Las Vegas and New York (United States), and Dubai (UAE). The ninth, Arte Museum Nagoya, opens on Wednesday, November 18, 2026.

What are teamLab’s permanent venues overseas?

Its official website lists venues including those in Abu Dhabi (from April 18, 2025), Jeddah (from June 10, 2024), Macao (from June 15, 2020) and Singapore (from March 12, 2016) as permanent.

*Information as of October 21, 2026. Please check the official websites for the latest information.

*Top image: An image from the announcement materials for “RÊVE DES LUMIÈRES” (©Culturespaces Studio) (from TV Asahi Corporation’s press release)

*This article was compiled by the TOKYO ART SPHERE editorial team based on official announcements and public materials from each institution and organizer (as of October 21, 2026).

Text: TOKYO ART SPHERE Editorial Team