otherworld (2020) america’s best new attractions worth traveling for a new kind of adventure

IT’S TIME FOR A NEW KIND OF ADVENTURE
Otherworld is a 32,000 square foot immersive art installation in Columbus. Explore over 40 scenes filled with large-scale art and mixed reality playgrounds. It’s an all new kind of art experience where visitors are encouraged to freely explore and interact with a surreal world of science fiction and fantasy.
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otherworld is an art installation built by more than 40 artists. They filled a 32,000-square-foot facility with large-scale works, secret passages, and playgrounds that blur the line between virtual and digital. Each of Otherworld’s 47 rooms is designed to resemble a science-fiction fantasyland. Visitors are encouraged to explore freely. Kids can fill in magical coloring books and solve puzzles. Those who are feeling adventurous can crawl into the mouth of a giant fuzzy monster. “We want young readers to look at the world and think of new and fun ways to use the things they see,” operations director John Umland says. —Ellen Nam

Opened May 2019
Big city East and West-Coasters may have raised an eyebrow when The New York Times named Columbus one of 52 places to visit this year. But among the new restaurants, museums, businesses, and revitalized riverfront park that are brewing up buzz for Ohio’s growing capital comes another kind of attraction: Otherworld, an immersive art installation in East Columbus. The 32,000-square-foot space is comprised of 47 explorable rooms, or “scenes,” created through the collaboration of more than 40 local and national artists.

Visitors enter Otherworld not so much as viewers, but as characters in a surreal choose-your-own-adventure story. A loose thematic narrative centers around Otherworld Industries, a shadowy tech entity that discovers an alternate dream realm. As you progress through the rooms, corporate offices and labs gradually give way to some wonderfully weird adventures -- you might find yourself crawling inside of a giant, fuzzy creature; touring a Dada-esque seascape; or hacking into the fictional corporation’s computers to piece together what went wrong with their experiments.

Founder Jordan Renda undoubtedly drew inspiration from Santa Fe’s Meow Wolf; what sets Otherworld apart, he feels, is the combination of art, sculpture, and tech elements “in a way that hasn’t been done anywhere else.” Every aspect of Otherworld -- the tactile floors and walls, the sound, the rave-meets-Kusama lighting -- are designed for total immersion. “You’re forced into the moment,” Renda told Thrillist. “There’s not any room to be distracted by your phone.” -- Billy Hallal

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