'They can explore and they can go into the spaces however they choose. 'It's accessible to everybody,' Vince said.

Once you pass beyond-the-wormhole into the multiverse, the attraction turns from a spook house into a fun house/art house, with over 70 connected chambers - and no map or visitor guide. Spinning eyeball Illuminati pyramid oversees giant rodent with circuit-board brain. This is where the lab coat people come in they're House of Eternal Return employees, who tidy up after the free-ranging visitors (Vince has at times worn a lab coat himself). 'We just let people do whatever they want to do,' said Vince. Visitors hunt for clues to the family's fate by rummaging through newspapers, post-it notes, office files, and other ephemera found in various rooms - every homeowners' Open House nightmare. if you're brave enough to look into the toilet bowl, you'll see something that shouldn't be there. Trans-dimensional portals snake through household appliances. The superficially normal house is anything but. The family that lived in the house possessed innate creativity so powerful that it opened wormholes from the house into the 'multiverse.' The home's only current inhabitants, besides tourists, are people in lab coats trying to contain the forces of spontaneity and chaos. The House, according to its official narrative, is a two-story Victorian home from Mendocino, California (site of the eerie Time and the Maiden statue) that's been somehow transported into the former Santa Fe bowling alley. Visitor favorite: the walk-thru 'Glowquarium.'Ĭolor-shifting mastodon bones make music when whacked. 'We kept pitching him opportunities to participate, but he only wanted to be the landlord.' 'George has visited many, many times,' said Vince. But if you're looking for the King of Spectacle inside, you won't find him - unless he's ambling through, just another tourist. The welcome mat outside its front door reads, Beyond Here There Be Dragons. 'Game of Thrones' Martin, who shelled out $3 million to buy and renovate an abandoned bowling alley that now houses the House. Vince sold the idea of House of Eternal Return to fellow Santa Fe resident George R.R. 'We're an art collective we operate without much structure or hierarchy.' Even the name Meow Wolf, said Vince, was invented serendipitously, by drawing two words at random out of a hat. 'It came out of the minds of 150 different people, with a lot of collaboration and scrappiness,' Vince said. Vince is the artist in charge of Meow Wolf in Santa Fe and believes in the creative power of spontaneity and chaos, which is how the House of Eternal Return was built. Socks and tourists vanish into the drier wormhole.

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