Meow Wolf unveils new room at Convergence Station celebrating 5 years of immersive art in Denver
“Heirloomarium” was created by Meow Wolf’s in-house art team, also being spotlighted in an exhibition at Galleri Gallery
Denver, CO —When Convergence Station first opened in that enigmatic “sleepy pizza” building, there was a lot of fanfare: 35,000 tickets sold in the first 24 hours, a million visitors in the first nine months. There was also uncertainty. Denver didn't know what to expect from the Santa Fe art collective's most ambitious permanent exhibition. Today, Convergence Station remains one of the top things to do in Denver, not to mention the largest exhibition of all five, and perhaps the most kaleidoscopic: with so much maximalist art, it’s impossible to process in one visit, making each adventure there unique.
To mark the milestone, Meow Wolf is opening a new room: one that descends into Convergence Station's most ancient and cavernous reaches, and takes a clear step toward the organization's newest direction in interactivity and questing.
*“*The team pushed themselves and delivered a space that's genuinely joyful to walk through,” said Brie Lipari, General Manager of Meow Wolf Denver. “That's what I hope the team is proudest of: not just the finished room, but how much it was about connection — finding the threads between people, between ideas, between the strange and the familiar — and choosing to embrace them instead of pushing them away."
“Heirloomarium” opens to the public Tuesday, September 1. Conceived and built entirely by Meow Wolf's in-house team of creatives, the room is the work of over 20 Meow Wolf artists, engineers, creative directors, and more. Full credits at the end of the release.
The room descends into cavernous rock off the Obsolete Obscurity hallway, where Eemia and the Ossuarian catacombs converge. Repurposed from an ancient mineshaft, the space carries multilayered time and use. The walls layer crystallized OSS formations, fossilized flora and fauna, and dilapidated retrofuture screens flickering with partial memories, all set in rock, glass, and metal. It belongs to the Eemian-Librarian research collective, a joint scientific operation that rediscovered and reclaimed the site, using arcane technomancy to holographically reanimate ancient creature ecologies embedded in the fossil record.
Visitors are not observers. The room is fully interactive. Players who navigate the connect-the-dots mechanic — linking OSS crystals, specific fossils, and old-tech screens in the right sequence — reanimate an incorporeal creature in its holographic environment and upload it to Convergence Station's shared knowledge network. Complete the full creature anthology and the room designates you
an official Archaeologist. The space returns to ambient when idle, waiting for the next person to begin.
“‘Heirloomarium’ was created by the artists and artisans who keep Convergence Station alive,” says Brandon Vargas, Artist Liaison at Meow Wolf Denver. “You can really see how their time and experience shows up in the techniques, collaboration, and art in the installation…It feels like an exciting love letter to the core spirit and narrative of Convergence Station."
Alongside the room opening, Galleri Gallery, *Convergence Station'*s local gallery, opens the Demi-Decade Exhibition (Part 2), featuring artwork by the some of the same in-house creators who built “Heirloomarium.” The show runs through September 30, and access to the gallery is included in General Admission.
“Heirloomarium” is open during all regular Convergence Station hours beginning September 1. Convergence Station is located at 1338 1st Street, Denver, CO 80204. Tickets at meowwolf.com/visit/denver
FULL CONTRIBUTOR CREDITS:
LEADERSHIP:
Brie Lipari, General Manager
Sofie Cruse, Creative Director
Adam Gillespie, Director of Facilities & Exhibition
Jeff Merkel, Sound Designer / Installation Coordinator
Grayson Irby, Lead Fabricator / Art + Scenic Project Manager
Sam Morin, Lighting Designer / Tech Project Manager
Tim Lillis, Installation Support
TECH:
Kit Matthews, Lead Experience Designer
Taylor Hedum, Tech Creative Engineer
Max Kitay, Tech Creative Engineer
Zee Howard, Assistant Lighting Designer
ART + SCENIC:
Alex Gomez, Lead Artist / Graphic Designer
Guillermo Andazola Ruiz, Rockwork Artist
Talia Da Silva, 3D Artist / Frosting Artist
Troy Houldin, Fabricator
Kat Pawlowski, Artist
FACILITIES:
Devan Cox, Installation Support
Nicholas Collins, Installation Support
Cameron Wallace, Installation Support
Adam Kennedy, Installation Support
Michael Burke, Installation Support
EXTERNAL:
iRecycleHere, Recycled Tech Provider
Piper Electric, Electrical Subcontractor