On a day that I didn’t really have much going on, I decided to break up the monotony of my work day and spend an afternoon checking out the Infinity Museum at the Boulevard Mall in the unincorporated town of Paradise in the Las Vegas Valley (different from the BLVD on the Las Vegas Strip). This is apparently a relatively new attraction, having opened only about a month ago
The Infinity Museum is a collection of eight rooms using lights and other visuals to create immersive experiences (along with a few more smaller displays in the hallways between rooms), some of which included a simulated starry night, a room with gigantic helium-filled orbs, a walk-in dodecahedron, a mirror maze, and a kaleidoscope.
This obviously reminded me of my visit to Arte Museum Las Vegas, another interactive and immersive light show experience. The Infinity Museum and the Arte Museum are similar, but have a few distinct differences.
It feels like the Infinity Museum wants to focus more on pushing boundaries and setting records, by way of designing things that haven’t been made before and being more innovative with their rooms. For a lot of the rooms, it also made me feel like I was basically a doll in a dollhouse—the rooms are large and spacious, so it almost gives the impression of there being a giant peering in through the ceiling and watching as you interact with their creation.
On the contrary, the Arte Museum had smaller rooms, which had the effect of feeling like the walls were pushing into you; this made it easier for you to get “lost” inside the immersion and truly feel like you are in the middle of what’s going on around you. Also, I personally like having multiple senses stimulated at once, so the fact that the Arte Museum integrated scents and aromas into their experiences made them very pleasant and memorable.
I personally liked the Arte Museum a bit better, but I enjoyed the Infinity Museum as well. I would recommend both; but, for different kinds of people who are looking for different things, I think one option will be notably better than the other.
I recommend the Arte Museum if you are an adult going alone or with a small group of other adults and have the patience to really take in what’s around you and want a multi-sensory experience (because remember, Arte Museum has a café too). I would recommend the Infinity Museum if you are going with children, or if you are big on taking cool-looking pictures to post on social media that will give a nice visual pop to your feed.
I personally paid US$29.00 for admission, but I think there was something bugged with the online booking system at the time of my purchase (I checked again just now, and it seems like the point-of-sale platform is fixed). When I went to buy my ticket, there were around three or four adult general admission ticket prices listed that made it seem like you were allowed to pick how much you wanted to pay (and I obviously picked the cheapest option). With that being said, I am a Las Vegas local and went during off-peak hours, so I feel like I deserved the cheapest ticket price anyway.
It looks like tickets are currently in the $40s per adult if you want to go on a weekend during surge hours, and they cost a little bit more if you also want to add on a VIP package.
Here are some photographs I took throughout all the exhibits:
