Phoenix’s Immersive Van Gogh Museum to Open August 26

With two months to go until the “Immersive Van Gogh” art installation opens in metro Phoenix, organizers have finally revealed where the event will be held.

The hour-long digital art experience that brings Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings to life with sound and motion will take place at Lighthouse Artspace in Scottsdale, organizers said Wednesday.

The exhibition, which was previously scheduled to begin its Phoenix-area run on July 29, will now start Aug. 26. People who have purchased tickets for July dates will be “rescheduled accordingly,” according to a representative for the show.


Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 3, at tickets.vangoghphx.com.

Corey Ross, one of the exhibit’s producers, explained why details of the event’s location were under wraps for so long.

“Usually it’s not a building that was presented as an event space already, so we have to do all of the construction that it takes to turn a space that’s not a public assembly place into a place that’s safe,” Ross said.

The experience is part art exhibit, part filmmaking and part “experiential entertainment.”

Visitors can expect to see works such as “Starry Night,” “Sunflowers,” “The Bedroom” and “The Potato Eaters” projected onto walls as original music by composer Luca  Longobardi plays. The event’s website promises “500,000 cubic feet of flawless projections animating Vincent van Gogh’s oeuvre.”

As people walk through, Van Gogh’s pieces will be projected on to them and will appear more clearly on white clothing.

The exhibit sold out in previous cities, including Toronto and Chicago.

Want to go? Here are the details: 

When: Opens Thursday, Aug. 26.

Where: Lighthouse Artspace, 4301 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale.

Tickets: $29.99-$99.99 per person.

Website: https://www.vangoghphx.com