Soon, you won’t have to travel to Japan to experience one of Tokyo’s most popular art attractions. Japanese collective teamLab is known for its immersive digital art museums, where visitors can walk through illuminated gardens, wade through water, and interact with ever-changing digital landscapes—and the crew is bringing its first permanent U.S. museum to California in 2030.
The roughly 110,000-square-foot museum will be part of OCVIBE, a $5 billion entertainment district taking shape in Anaheim around the Honda Center, home of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks. The California location won’t simply be a copy of teamLab’s popular Tokyo museums; instead, the purpose-built facility will house a new exhibition, though the collective hasn’t yet revealed which installations will be included or whether any of its best-known works will make the trip across the Pacific. Here’s what we know so far about the museum and what visitors can expect when it opens.
What Will the New teamLab Museum Be Like?
Founded in Tokyo in 2001, teamLab is a collective of artists, programmers, engineers, architects, and other specialists who use digital technology to create installations that visitors can move through and interact with.
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At teamLab’s museums, the artwork responds to the people moving through it. In some installations, projected flowers bloom beneath visitors’ feet, then scatter or fade as they walk across the floor. In others, waterfalls cascade down walls and flow around people standing in their path. Visitors can also wander through mirrored rooms filled with thousands of suspended LED lights that change color, creating the illusion of an infinite space.
The collective operates two of Tokyo’s most popular immersive art attractions. At teamLab Borderless, which reopened in the city’s Azabudai Hills development in 2024, visitors wander through a maze of galleries without a prescribed route or museum map. Among its installations is Bubble Universe, a room filled with hundreds of glowing spheres that appear to extend infinitely in mirrored surfaces, and Light Sculpture, which uses beams of light to create shifting three-dimensional forms.
At teamLab Planets, in Tokyo’s Toyosu neighborhood, the experience is even more hands-on. Visitors remove their shoes to wade through knee-deep water where projected koi fish swim around their legs, dissolving into flowers when they collide with people. Elsewhere, they can walk beneath a canopy of more than 13,000 living orchids that rise and fall as people approach, or climb through a suspended, three-dimensional net that responds to their movements.
The Anaheim museum will build on the collective’s approach to immersive art, but exactly how it will compare with its Japanese counterparts remains to be seen. Los Angeles–based architecture firm smith-clementi is designing the museum, which will have a textured exterior that changes appearance throughout the day as sunlight moves across its surface. The largely windowless building will accommodate teamLab’s light-sensitive digital installations, while the facade will add a distinctive architectural feature to the surrounding development.
Why Is teamLab Opening in Anaheim?
The museum will be one of the main cultural attractions at OCVIBE, an Orange County redevelopment project transforming roughly 100 acres surrounding Anaheim’s Honda Center into an entertainment district with restaurants, concert venues, parks, and public art.
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The first phase is scheduled to open in March 2027 with a 5,000-capacity concert venue, followed by a 50,000-square-foot food hall called Katella Commons and additional restaurants and public spaces later that year. When the full development is completed in 2033, plans call for more than 35 dining establishments and 20 acres of open space.
The museum is scheduled to open in 2030, although an exact opening date hasn’t been announced. Ticket prices, hours, and reservation details are also still to come.
Travelers who don’t want to wait until 2030 can visit teamLab’s existing museums in Japan, as well as its other international locations, including teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, which opened in the United Arab Emirates in 2025.
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