Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart is opening in Las Vegas in a pandemic

Saturday, February 20, 2021 1:02 PM
  • Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times

There are face scanners for guests to toy with inside the 52,000-square-foot exhibition space that immersive entertainment company Meow Wolf [opened] Thursday in Las Vegas.

The bad news: The scanners don’t work with face masks.

But where others see restrictions, Meow Wolf tends to see opportunities.

The Omega Mart, located a few minutes off the Las Vegas Strip, aims to further Meow Wolf’s goal of marrying experimental art, theme park-inspired design and ambitious ideas on how we play in physical spaces. Depending on your perspective, Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart is an art gallery, an indoor theme park, a bold statement on individual theatricality, a place to take lots of Instagram photos or the sort of indoor space that should be avoided at all costs by the nonvaccinated during a pandemic.