Denver’s Meow Wolf adds new room to celebrate fifth anniversary
Aug 21, 2026, 4:23 PM | Updated: Aug 24, 2026, 11:18 am
Five years ago, Denver had no idea what to do with that enigmatic “sleepy pizza” building off I-25. Then Meow Wolf opened Convergence Station, sold 35,000 tickets in the first 24 hours, hit a million visitors in nine months and turned the place into one of the most talked-about attractions in the state. Now, to celebrate the five-year milestone, Meow Wolf is doing what Meow Wolf does best: making things weirder.
A brand new room called “Heirloomarium” opens to the public Tuesday, Sept. 1, descending into the deepest, most ancient reaches of Convergence Station, off the Obsolete Obscurity hallway where Eemia and the Ossuarian catacombs converge. The space was conceived and built entirely by more than 20 of Meow Wolf’s in-house artists, engineers and creative directors, and it’s fully interactive. Visitors navigate a connect-the-dots mechanic, linking OSS crystals, specific fossils and old-tech screens in the right sequence, to holographically reanimate ancient creatures embedded in the fossil record. Complete the full creature anthology and the room designates you an official archaeologist. So yes, you can now put that on your LinkedIn.
“The team pushed themselves and delivered a space that’s genuinely joyful to walk through,” said Brie Lipari, general manager of Meow Wolf Denver. “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.”
Alongside the new room, Galleri Gallery, Convergence Station’s in-house art gallery, is opening the Demi-Decade Exhibition (Part 2), featuring work from some of the same creators who built Heirloomarium. The show runs through Sept. 30, and access is included with general admission. Denver’s location was Meow Wolf’s third permanent exhibition when it opened in September 2021, utilizing more than 110 Colorado artists to bring it to life and investing over $615,000 to 150 diverse arts organizations since. Convergence Station is located at 1338 1st St. in Denver.
