Arcadia Earth Opens Immersive Environmental Art Experience in Las Vegas

Add a touch of education to your family travel with Arcadia Earth, a next-generation art exhibition. The extended reality experience recently opened its newest location on the Las Vegas Strip, expanding on the concept that started in New York City. The exhibit reimagines the most pressing environmental issues of our time at the 15,000-square-foot location featuring immersive physical installations through the futuristic lens of augmented and virtual reality.

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Experiential artist Valentino Vettori designed Arcadia Earth, the world’s first multichannel platform highlighting ecological issues. The Las Vegas space includes 15 different exhibits on global challenges like melting ice caps, plastic waste, overfishing, loss of biodiversity and more.

Not designed to shame visitors, the exhibits instead inspire empowerment through beauty, education and actionable suggestions. For example, while visitors to the Las Vegas outpost learn more than 40 percent of Nevada is in “exceptional” drought, they also learn the city has already reduced its consumption, using 23 billion fewer gallons of water in 2020 than in 2002 even with a population increase of more than 780,000 residents. QR codes throughout the exhibit share steps visitors can take to conserve; there are also links to the Arcadia Earth marketplace, selling an assortment of reusable items.

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Throughout the exhibit, guests find sculptures, sensory experiences, AR and VR. Ticket prices begin at $33, with a 10 percent discount for Nevada residents. A tree is planted for every ticket sold and proceeds support Oceanic Global, which raises awareness about the effects of human consumption on aquatic ecosystems.