Meow Wolf’s Sixth Venue Will Occupy a Vacant Los Angeles Movie Theater: Titmouse Partnership Announced, Opening Date TBA

Meow Wolf, a US arts and entertainment company, is creating its sixth permanent exhibition in Los Angeles. According to the official website, it will be located in a vacant movie theater complex at the “HHLA center” in West Los Angeles, with an opening slated for “late 2026 to early 2027.” On July 9, 2026, the company announced a multiyear partnership with animation studio Titmouse, which will produce and direct the animation used in the Los Angeles exhibition. As of October 25, the opening date, the exhibition’s name and its size had not been announced. Based on Meow Wolf’s official press releases and website, this article covers the Los Angeles plan, the details of the Titmouse partnership, and the opening years and published figures for the five existing locations.

Meow Wolf began in 2008 as a small collective of artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It opened its first permanent exhibition in Santa Fe in 2016 and now operates permanent exhibitions in five cities, adding Las Vegas, Denver, and Grapevine and Houston in Texas. Visitors walk through and explore large-scale interactive installation spaces created by hundreds of artists. All seven cities on the official website’s list of locations (including those yet to open) are in the United States. Plans for experiential art venues continue in Japan as well; in Kyoto, the venue introduced in our article on Superblue Kyoto is scheduled to open in early 2027.

The Los Angeles plan: A sixth venue in a vacant West LA movie theater

On May 3, 2024, Meow Wolf announced that Los Angeles would be the city of its sixth permanent exhibition. The announcement’s headline said it would open in 2026, and the text explained that the exhibition would be located in a Los Angeles movie theater. Details such as the reveal and theme were to be announced in the coming months.

The current Los Angeles page on the official website gives the address as 6081 Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90045, and says the exhibition is coming to the “HHLA center” in West LA. Meow Wolf says it is taking over a vacant movie theater complex and intends to fully embrace the site’s roots as a cinema.

As for timing, the top of the page says “late 2026 to early 2027,” while the FAQ section says “2026.” The July 9 partnership announcement said the exhibition was currently slated to open in the fourth quarter of 2026. As of October 25, no specific opening date or ticket on-sale date had been announced. The page is accepting sign-ups for updates, promising to notify people when tickets go on sale.

The exhibition’s name and scale, such as floor area, have not been officially disclosed either. The page introduces two participating artists: Everything Is Terrible!, a Los Angeles artist collective that makes work from found VHS tapes, and Gabriela Ruiz, a Los Angeles–based artist who creates large-scale installations, sculpture, painting and performance. For Ruiz, the page also mentions her participation in the 2026 Whitney Biennial, which opened on March 8, 2026.

In the 2024 announcement, Sean Di Ianni, co-founder and senior creative director of Meow Wolf Los Angeles, said that L.A. is more than a physical place, reaching deep into the global landscape of the human imagination.

Basic information

Name: Meow Wolf Los Angeles (sixth permanent exhibition; exhibition name not yet announced)
Location: A vacant movie theater complex at HHLA center (6081 Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA)
Scheduled opening: Late 2026 to early 2027 (official website); Q4 2026 per the July 9 announcement
Scale: Not announced
Admission: Not announced (tickets not yet on sale)
Collaborator: Titmouse (animation production and direction, advice on visual and narrative design)
Artists: Everything Is Terrible!, Gabriela Ruiz (the two introduced on the official website as of October 25)
Official website: https://meowwolf.com/visit/los-angeles

The Titmouse partnership: An animated series and exhibition visuals

According to the July 9 announcement, Meow Wolf and Titmouse entered a multiyear creative partnership spanning animation, immersive storytelling and the development of original series. It is described as the first major collaboration between the two companies.

The first pillar of the partnership is the joint development of an original animated series based on Meow Wolf’s story worlds. Both companies serve as executive producers, with development at Titmouse overseen by co-founder and CEO Chris Prynoski.

The second is the Los Angeles exhibition. Titmouse will produce and direct the animation used in the exhibition and advise on its visual and narrative design. Details of the Los Angeles exhibition and future animation projects were to be announced in the coming months.

The announcement introduces Titmouse as the Emmy-winning animation studio behind “Big Mouth,” “The Venture Bros.” and “Beavis and Butt-Head,” and describes Meow Wolf as a punk-born art company known for turning warehouses into wormholes. The two companies had announced a panel, “Weirder Together: Meow Wolf + Titmouse,” at San Diego Comic-Con on July 23.

James Stephenson, senior vice president and creative director of emerging media at Meow Wolf, said that Titmouse and Meow Wolf come from the same place: fearless, independent companies founded and led by artists.

The five existing locations: From Santa Fe in 2016 to Houston in 2024

The official website’s About page gives the opening years of the five permanent exhibitions as follows.

• House of Eternal Return: Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2016. The first permanent exhibition, opened with the support of George R. R. Martin. An August 2020 announcement said it had reached 2 million visitors.

• Omega Mart: Las Vegas, Nevada, 2021. Located inside AREA15. An August 10, 2020 announcement gave its size as 52,000 square feet (about 4,800 m²), with more than 50 visual and musical artists taking part.

• Convergence Station: Denver, Colorado, 2021. According to the official website, it has more than 70 interactive installations across four worlds.

• The Real Unreal: Grapevine, Texas, 2023. The fourth permanent exhibition, on the east side of Grapevine Mills.

• Radio Tave: Houston, Texas, 2024. The fifth permanent exhibition, in the city’s Fifth Ward, with more than 85 spaces and installations. Its groundbreaking was announced on May 26, 2023.

In addition, on March 10, 2025, Meow Wolf announced that its seventh permanent exhibition would be in New York, at Pier 17 in the historic Seaport district. The theme and opening date are to be announced later, and the official website lists it as “Coming Soon” alongside Los Angeles.

Published figures: “Nearly 10 million” cumulative visitors as of 2024

Of the official announcements the editorial team reviewed, the one giving a cumulative visitor count is the May 2024 Los Angeles announcement, which says the company’s exhibitions have welcomed “nearly 10 million” visitors. The July 2026 partnership announcement says only that the exhibitions have been visited by millions of fans across the country. By location, the August 2020 announcement put Santa Fe’s visitors at 2 million, but no later per-location figures could be found on the official website or in press releases.

On its production setup, the official website’s page on artist collaboration says the company employs 250 full-time artists to create new exhibitions, citing as an example its work with 110 Colorado-based collaborators in Denver. The About page also says its staff includes many full-time artists.

As a company, it is registered as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and is a certified B Corp (official website). The 2024 announcement describes it as the first certified B Corp in the entertainment industry.

Beyond the exhibitions: The Simpsons, a tabletop RPG and AR

Meow Wolf has also made a series of announcements extending its exhibitions’ story worlds beyond the exhibitions themselves. On June 11, 2025, it announced plans with Niantic Spatial for a pilot bringing its story worlds into augmented reality (AR). As a first phase, a limited beta was to be held at Convergence Station in Denver later that year.

On August 15, 2025, it announced that “TAVERS,” an official tabletop role-playing game developed by Exalted Funeral, would launch on Kickstarter in spring 2026. For “Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition,” an episode of the animated series “The Simpsons” that began streaming on Disney+ on June 17, 2026, Meow Wolf collaborated on an extended version of the opening “couch gag.” The joint development of an animated series with Titmouse is likewise part of an effort to extend its story worlds to the screen.

Editor’s perspective

Looking at its openings, after Santa Fe in 2016, Meow Wolf opened two locations in 2021 and one each in 2023 and 2024. Las Vegas opened the year after its August 2020 announcement, and Houston the year after its May 2023 groundbreaking. Los Angeles was billed as opening in 2026 when announced in May 2024, but the official website now gives a range of “late 2026 to early 2027,” and as of October 25 no opening date had been given.

The Los Angeles plan is distinguished by its combination of building and moving image. Meow Wolf is using a vacant movie theater complex and says it will incorporate the site’s cinema roots into the exhibition, whose animation will be produced and directed by Emmy-winning studio Titmouse. In parallel, the two companies are jointly developing an animated series, and Meow Wolf has made a series of announcements extending its story worlds beyond the exhibitions, from AR and a tabletop RPG to its work on “The Simpsons.” This can be read as a plan to expand into film and games with its permanent exhibitions at the core.

Attendance at digital art facilities and immersive exhibitions in Japan is compiled in our roundup of attendance figures. Meow Wolf’s “nearly 10 million” is a company-wide figure as of May 2024, and no current per-location figures have been published. When comparing figures in Japan and abroad, it is important to note differences in timing and scope. Overall trends in immersive venues abroad are covered in our article on immersive digital art facilities overseas.

Frequently asked questions

When will the Los Angeles exhibition open?

As of October 25, no opening date had been announced. The July 9 announcement said it was slated to open in the fourth quarter of 2026, and the Los Angeles page on the official website says “late 2026 to early 2027.” Tickets are not yet on sale.

Where is it?

According to the official website, it is at the “HHLA center” in West Los Angeles (6081 Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90045). Meow Wolf is taking over a vacant movie theater complex to create the exhibition.

What is Titmouse’s role?

Titmouse will produce and direct the animation used in the Los Angeles exhibition and advise on its visual and narrative design. Separately, the two companies are jointly developing an animated series based on Meow Wolf’s story worlds, with both serving as executive producers.

*Information as of October 25, 2026. Please check the official website for the latest information.

*Top image: The swamp forest inside “House of Eternal Return,” Meow Wolf’s permanent exhibition in Santa Fe (Photo: Kate Russell, from Meow Wolf’s press image page)

*This article was compiled by the TOKYO ART SPHERE editorial team based on Meow Wolf’s official press releases and website (as of October 25, 2026).

Text: TOKYO ART SPHERE Editorial Team