No A/C!!! It's 88 degrees outside and there is better circulation out there than in here. Paid online fever website charged $5 per transaction on top of fee. We couldn't fully enjoy the experience because of the heat! Parking was 12.50 for 2 hours unlike what other yelper said. Could've been so much better if we felt like we weren't steaming in the warehouse. read more

Van Gogh Exhibition - Art Galleries Near Me - Seattle, Washington

I'm tired so my review will be short. With only three days in Seattle there was a lot we wanted to do but on the rainy Monday evening we decided to head to down town Seattle for the Van Gogh experience. It ending up being a highlight of the trip for us. It's pretty obvious that the replicas of his works., are well, replicas, it was still a really educational way to tell his story and give meaning behind the art. My daughter is a lover of art and an artist herself so she really was loving this. I liked learning more about him, and I love the immersive room! The day we came there wasn't a large crowd so it was really nice to explore with minimal crowds. The immersive room was not crowded either and if it wasn't for the others I was with, I think I would have sat there longer. I had a good time! read more

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I was really impressed with the installation - there was a lot of information as you start to walk through the building describing Van Gogh's life, artistic journey and mental issues. The 3D imagined painting were impressive, but the immersive experience really was deeply moving. I would not recommend for little kids though - the kids running around or babies crying took a little away from the immersive experience. There was a fun place to color a Van Gogh after the immersion room and it was fun to look at other peoples art. All in all I would highly recommend. read more

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I loved this exhibit! It was beautifully executed and informative. I'm a huge Van Gogh fan and had a great time read more

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We attended last week Thursday, August 17th. It was near 90F outside, and barely cooler at all inside the venue. No A/C. No air moving except for one box fan next to the VR guy, who perhaps brought it from home for his own use. The oppressive heat was enough to cause us to go into low energy mode. We walked along slowly, studying the displays and trying to breathe. Frankly, none of it was worth the money we spent to see the same few paintings displayed or projected over and over throughout the building. And the VR experience was such a disappointment! Nothing remarkable whatsoever. read more

It was nice to learn about the art of Van Gogh. But the exhibition was terrible. Just compare an actual picture from there looking at which cost me $40 and a free copy of the original on the Internet. read more

Van Gogh Exhibition - Van Gogh "Immersive" Experience - Art Galleries Near Me - Seattle, Washington

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My fiancée and I went and it was so much fun! Lots to see and do, the exhibits were beautiful, the flow of the displays was nice and the projection room was so cool! We loved it! read more

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Had a great time. I surprised my partner on Christmas with tickets to the Van Gogh Exhibit. Highly recommend. Safe and upon entrance they ask for vaccination status right away which is reassuring in this pandemic. I enjoyed everything. Highly recommend visiting. read more

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It was very expensive, but it is worth it. It was a relaxing family experience. You get to understand Van Gogn and see his works virtually. Lots of photo opportunities and a gift shop at the end. read more

Van Gogh Exhibition - Art immersion - Art Galleries Near Me - Seattle, Washington

The entire thing felt like a waiting room for something better that never comes. I would save my money and go to the SAM or another real museum if you love art. read more

My partner bought me tickets for my birthday and it didn't disappoint. I absolutely LOVED it! The website advised to plan 60-75mins to make it through the exhibit. We spent over 2 hours and we could have stayed longer. It really depends on if you spend time reading and enjoying all of the exhibits before entering the immersive experience portion (which is at the very end). We had wanted to try the virtual add-on, but we didn't have enough time. We went mid-day (2pm) on a Thursday, thinking it wouldn't be busy, but were sadly mistaken. We had actually thought they had sold too many tickets to feel safe amongst COVID - although proof of vaccination is required to enter. It was difficult to maintain social distance amongst all the people even at an off time. We enjoyed the exhibits leading up to the immersive round the best. My suggestion would be to plan more time than suggested and spend the time reading and enjoying all of the paintings. We would love to find the time to go again! read more

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The exhibit starts with a walk through portion similar to a normal art museum that features paintings and also describes different parts of VGs life. Then you walk into a room that features the immersive experience. There are chairs, benches, and blankets to lounge on. Plenty of room for everyone who wanted a seat. Every wall of the room is projected upon with moving VG paintings with a matching soundtrack. It follows VGs life through happier times and into his dark final days. The images and sounds match that. It is probably about ~15 minute show. The next room has crayons and paper printouts of VG paintings for you to color. The next room you can pay extra $5 to do a VR experience which i thought was okay but it made me dizzy but my partner really liked. Overall a cool experience. Enjoyed the immersive part the best and I wish there where more exhibits like this. read more

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Way overpriced. It starts with some posters giving very basic facts about Van Gogh's life. Most of the posters repeat the same information, and it's nothing a quick Google search wouldn't tell you. There are cheap reproductions of his art on the walls, much like the kind you can find on Amazon. Really though, you are paying to get into the one room where the "immersive experience" happens. This was also underwhelming. The screens were blurry with obvious creases. The room was crowded and incredibly hot, with rather uncomfortable chairs and rugs to sit on. The music was lovely, but it mixed poorly with screaming children. Several children were running circles around the exhibit doing cartwheels, which apparently was appropriate at an art exhibit. The experience itself is 35 minutes, played on a loop, but I was ready to leave after 5. It reminded me of a PowerPoint presentation, with various blurry quotes thrown on the screen for maximum impact. After the main room with the immersive experience, you are funneled into a room where you can color in your own Van Gogh piece (no thank you), followed by the VR experience. It was only $5, but was really disappointing. Finally, you exit through the gift shop where you can buy overpriced Van Gogh themed merchandise. Overall, I think I would be less bitter if this had been $10. At around $50 per person, I felt like I had been ripped off. If you can, just go see his art in person. This doesn't even come close. read more

This was absolutely awful. Kids running around the main exhibit like a playground, no staff would do anything about it, then the parking company wouldn't let us extend our time for anything less than $63 - for 50 minutes! So we had to cut our visit short, didn't get to do the VR experience or get our posters... so much for "VIP." And when I asked for a refund, the incompetent manager said he couldn't because we'd paid online and would have to contact the "booking company." What?!? So they can do nothing to help us and completely deflect blame? NO ONE would take any responsibility - we paid GOOD money for an experience we did not get. My wife was so mad she hopped out of the car and walked 30 minutes up town. Thanks for ruining the thing she'd been looking forward to most, cowards. Someone should have told the little runts' parents to control their brats so everyone could enjoy the supposedly "immersive" experience, and someone should have made it clear that parking rates would change while we were still in the building. Pathetic. Waste of time. Really a good scam - they blame the parking company for parking rates, the parking people say they can't do anything (not even give me 50 more minutes to finish up!) for less than $62.38 through their crummy app, and then the "manager" just regurgitated nonsense about the booking company. According to the website, we had to book a time to do the VP experience - so we did the responsible thing and booked ahead. Little did we know that meant yet another party we'd have to deal with in this colossal cluster of a catastrophe. The concept of the event is neat, but this was truly a horrible experience that ruined our entire weekend and cost us nearly $180 for two VIP tickets we didn't need and parking that wouldn't let us stay long enough to do what we paid for. Then of course, we had to sit in game day traffic trying to get out. What a mess. Skip this. This is basically reproduction artwork and a projector show in an old warehouse. If you do decide to go, don't waste money on VIP - you won't have time to do the VR or finish the exhibit, you certainly WON'T get treated any better, and if some irresponsible parents ruin the main event, no one cares. Ugh. Just ugh. read more

This really doesn't live up to the hype. I agree with an earlier reviewer that the walk through the gallery before the immersive part is the best aspect of this event. The immersive experience seemed amateurish to me. Images are projected in sections along all four walls of the space, and there are glitches and artifacts where the sections meet. And honestly, pitching this as "immersive" is a bit of a stretch. This is animated representations of paintings with a bit of music and a few overly dramatic readings of some of Van Gogh's quotes. This seemed like one of those things that's supposed to make art "cool" for middle schoolers. After leaving that exhibit, we got to the VR component, and we just skipped it. Sitting still while wearing an Oculus didn't seem terribly appealing after we had just sat around looking at uninspired animation for 20 minutes. My family had all been pretty excited about this. All of us saw some things we liked, but overall, our best rating was "meh." Really overpriced for what it is. The parking app was causing frustration for some customers -- someone who had been trying to pay for 45 minutes asked me for help. read more

Parking is going to cost you extra unless you get lucky and get curbside spot. Entrance is a warehouse which took a bit to find. Once inside it was easy to find your way around. Everything is self guided. Several of the piece's were very cool to see, but the VIP experience is definitely not worth it. Best to see the pieces in an art museum. Everything was a replica and didn't do it justice in my opinion. The gift shop at the end was a VERY overpriced trinkets that you could find online at 1/4 of the price. read more

The exhibition was okay, however seems a little underwhelming for the price point. We watched the entire light show twice and stayed to color and still only spent an hour and twenty minutes here. Wish the experience was a little cheaper for what it is. read more

The artwork was impressive, but the venue was sub-standard. The building was NOT climate controlled, and the outside temperature was close to 90 degrees. NO air conditioning, air wasn't even moving. We had a hard time focusing. We paid for VIP tickets which included the Virtual Reality experience. The headset did not work correctly for one of us and the overall VR experience was sub-standard in our opinion. Of course, it didn't help that we were sweating the whole time. We were disappointed to say the least. read more

The immersive room was very cool from a technology standpoint. Van Gogh mostly served as a graphic theme, though they did try to connect some of the artwork together via animations. The rest of the show was pretty "meh", and even found some of the biographical information to be contradictory. Glad I went, but it is overpriced for what you get. read more

Putchased flex VIP tickets for Van Gogh today not a particularly warm day but I walked into Van Gogh warehouse and the heat was intense , stuffy and too warm to enjoy the exhibit. the VR room was cooler but the rest of the exhibit where I was going to spend the next hour was way too warm and the immersive experience room was an oven. The VR is only 10 minutes long too bad they couldn't have cooled down the immersive room to closer to the VR room. I spent $180 for 3 flex tickets and spent about 25 minutes in the exhibit but would have liked to have spent more. Waste of money ! read more

The exhibit was fun and informative but it must suck to work here because the staff is unfriendly.

Don't think it worth it. On 12/30 it snowed in Seattle so I called the exhibition for a local phone number as I want to double check if it was still open, but was told they didn't have a local contact available. When we arrived there, we were told the power was out and after half hour's waiting, the power was back but we still waited for an extra hour. The show is ok, not too bad but by no means outstanding at all! Ironically, they promised to offer VIP as they didn't notify about the power outage, but still asked the fee for the VR experience: (. Nothing else but an overpriced commercial show. read more

I previously wrote a google review on this exhibit which I am sharing here for more visibility: Over-priced and underwhelming. The whole show from start to finish took us a little over 15 minutes (including a solid 10 minutes standing in the last "immersive room" trying to justify to my family my paying the $50/person entrance fee for all this). Apart from the big room at end, the exhibit consists of various Van Gogh famous paintings digitally projected onto canvas and a few unremarkable installations. Given its (lack of) content, I think $10~15/person would be a reasonable price. Also, once you purchased the ticket, it becomes immediately non refundable. Caveat emptor! read more

This was such a great evening. Immersive, educational, engaging and entertaining experience. Would definitely do it again.

I brought my 2.5 year old and 5 year old, and that was a mistake. It is too much of a museum like structure in the beginning for younger kids. They did like the last room with the wall to wall projection of his work but that was it. We were in and out in 30 mins. I would have enjoyed it much more by myself or with other adults. I would not recommend this to people with younger kids. read more

I was really looking forward to this but it turned out to be a disappointment. Small children were allowed turn run around and yell and play throughout the entire event. Some kids were allowed by their parents to sit in one of the displays for photos. Then in the big room, where there were lawn chairs and various places to sit and relax while enjoying the art display and accompanying music, several small children ran around the entire time, yelling and playing which ruined the entire experience. Their parents just let them run wild. The staff should have politely ask their parents to make them stop but did not. It was like a playground instead of an art exhibition. Waste of $50 ticket. read more

Not nearly as exciting as the pictures on the internet. A bunch of prints with information posted by each, then a large room with Van Gogh-themed lighting on the 4 walls. Not interesting or exciting. We paid $240 for our family of 4, not worth it. We paid an extra $20 for the Halloween theme. When we arrived the receptionist didn't know what it was then as we walked through the hallways with prints on the walls there was a plain corner area decorated for Halloween, very simple and weird looking. There was nothing else in the entire event which would have justified the $5 extra dollars per ticket. disappointing. read more

I gave this review a one star since it was what I expected - a sensationalized presentation of what someone who is familiar with Van Gogh already knows. I knew basically Van Gogh's history and mental struggles and I've seen his artwork for years, but this is the same thing only someone put it in a large warehouse and animated the art with computer imaging. If you're paying to see and learn something different then you won't. If you're paying to see what someone can do with computer imaging then this is for you. read more

Don't go until winter, and definitely not on a game day! you will roast in there, must have been 90 degrees in that warehouse, took away from the enjoyment of the exhibit. The $50 parking hurt too. No wonder theres no info on parking on the website. read more

It was a wonderful show but the parking lot will charge a fee of $55.50 for being just 9 minutes late so it makes it a very expensive day

Fun exhibit. Loved the immersion room and will skip right to that next time since I'm going again with someone else. I enjoyed the VR after I powered thru my initial claustrophobia. The VR shouldn't start in a small room and hallway! Tickets must be purchased through the Fever app which is a mini nightmare if you want to purchase differently priced tickets for the same time slot. My time slot got sold out midway through my purchase. Left a sour taste although Fever phone customer support was friendly if ultimately unhelpful. read more

I'm sorry to say but honestly, don't go and save your $$. So many other things in Seattle that are not worth this much and give so much more "immersion" and interactive education. The Aquarium comes to mind. The whole experience felt like a walk through Wikipedia article. I did enjoy reading more about the history and timeline of Van Gogh, but I also never felt pulled into any of the oversized rooms that had prints of his pieces along the wall -or- a room full of projectors with windows 98 level effects blending his works together over a choppy audio, that others have mentioned doesn't actually tell a cohesive story. I've seen some of his pieces when I lived down in Houston, cool whatever, just know that this was not that. Go to a museum at a time and place that actually has his artwork. Don't buy into this overpriced money grab. 2nd to last room they ask you to pay $5 for a VR experience, needless to say that didn't happen for me. Room after that is the gift shop where you can get a $44 puzzle set and $16 holographic postcard. read more

I thought the experience was great. The room with the artwork surrounding the entire room was the best part. We had VIP, but I personally felt it wasn't worth it. There was no line when we went, so we didn't need the "skip the line" feature. I personally did not find the VR experience that interesting, and by the time we finished the exhibit, they had ran out of the posters we were supposed to receive as part of the VIP package, so our substitution was either a bookmark or a magnet - which was quite disappointing, especially for the extra cost of VIP ticket vs general admission. They need a better system in place to ensure VIP receives their posters before non-VIP guests buy them out. Overall fun experience, but don't splurge on VIP. read more

Was not in the least impressed. I'm not sure why they give you a designated time for your experience since people were coming and leaving with no checks on what time was designated for them. The main event was crowded with people, nowhere to sit, many were lying on the floor. The impressions of his work when you first enter were fuzzy, bordering on ridiculous. This was a huge waste of time - but most importantly it was just a disorganized mess. read more

The Van Gogh Exhibition was an amazing experience. I knew virtually nothing about Van Gogh, but by the end of this experience I felt as if I had taken a college course about him. Everything about the exhibit was top notch and we are planning to go again. The Virtual Reality experience was our favorite part and definitely worth the extra $5.00 per person. Hopefully they will have more merchandise in stock by the time we go back. Seattleites were obviously doing our holiday shopping in the Van Gogh gift shop this year. Actually this experience would make a great gift for someone this year. read more

Kids! Running, flipping around, chattering, shrieking, rolling around on carpet...that's the major immersive experience, made it so difficult in the big immersive room to focus on the revolving pictures, narration and beautiful music...Here one is in art installation ,like an art gallery, with beautiful contemplative music playing and the staff does nothing to ask parents to have their children sit and be quiet...To me this was not intended to be like a trip to the Seattle Science Center! it almost ruined things for us. I mentioned to staff about having family hours, or someone at the entrance to the immersive room reminding parents to ask their children to behave...it was shrugged off. I wanted to go again and take friends, but I'm discouraged. If one doesn't mind the constant jumping, spinning and chattering this is a great exhibit, and the last room with 3D was just amazing! Maybe try for tickets at night for an adult audience. read more

The company is a bunch of crooks with no knowledge of customer service. I had purchased 3 tickets way back for Nov - we were unable to go due to an unforeseen surgery. I received a voucher for the value of the three tickets (minus the service charge). Today I attempted to use the voucher to purchase 2 tickets (they are making extra profit off me now). I booked the tickets in their app and upon getting confirmation I see the time is not what I selected. So - contact customer service - they tell me they need to do a voucher again...no way to do a simple time change? This time I get the value of 2 tickets - minus the service charge. To add to the insult the customer service rep blamed me for the issue. I'm pretty tech savy (working in the software industry for 20+ years) and I am quite positive I did not make the mistake. Long story short - they are unable to make good on the issue with triple charging me for the service charge on the tickets, they insult me multiple times... So basically I would avoid this company at all costs. read more