First previewed in October 2025, Dataland is a museum of AI art created by digital artist Refik Anadol, now internationally famous for his kinetic, data- and fluid-inspired “living art” installations – previously featured at LA’s Jeffrey Dietch Gallery, the Sphere in Las Vegas, NYC’s MoMA, and locations throughout Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. On par with TeamLab’s famous Japanese interactive installations and better than Arte Museum’s U.S. versions, Dataland instantly became a must-see Los Angeles destination when it officially opened in mid-June 2026, boasting multiple exhibition spaces with ultra-high-resolution displays, multi-hundred-channel audio, and truly immersive art.
Located at The Grand across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Broad, Dataland explores “how human and machine intelligence can co-create new forms of beauty, knowledge, and experience.” Each guest is equipped with scent emitters and a wrist-worn biomonitor before exploring the exhibits, which use data to evoke scenes from nature – realistic and generative plants, cascading digital liquids, and forests – with accompanying smells and interactivity enabled by the accessories. Elsewhere, visitors can draw on translucent touchscreens and use body motions to generate flora and fauna based on Anadol’s sustainably trained AI system “Living Encyclopedia,” or sit on benches to view generative digital scenes specific to the biometrics of the viewing guests.
Tickets to Dataland start at $49 per person, including two free hours of validated parking in The Grand’s underground garage. Bonbons (“data.chocolate”) made to match some of the scents can be purchased for $6 each; a gift shop at the end of the museum offers merch (initially including t-shirts, bags, jewelry, and water bottles) and free data.tokens memorializing each visit – later enabling production of personalized scents by L’Oreal. Expect to spend 1.5 to 2 hours per visit; new exhibitions are expected to debut throughout each year.
