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This spring, London will welcome an extraordinary immersive art experience as Luminarium: Myriad opens in the capital for the very first time at London’s best-connected cultural venue, Woolwich Works. Created by the internationally acclaimed Architects of Air and world-renowned artist Alan Parkinson, the monumental inflatable sculpture will offer groups a magical opportunity to step together into a world shaped entirely by light, colour and architectural form.

In a landmark cultural moment for 2026, London’s Lightroom have today announced Larger Than Life: Starring Wallace & Gromit, Shaun and More will open at their King's Cross site this October. This brand-new 360° immersive experience marks the 50th anniversary of the four-time Oscar-winning Aardman studio, inviting audiences to step directly into the anarchic, joyful worlds of the likes of Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph. 

This March, as part of the Barbican’s Scene Change season, a series of transformative performances and gatherings in unexpected places, the Barbican is host to the UK premiere of Landmark Productions/Octopus Theatricals one-of-a-kind production, Theatre for One. Part confessional, part peep-show booth, Theatre for One is a free, five-minute performance that showcases the best of Irish writing, performed by one actor for one audience member.

Studio Zweklos is a London-based performance studio working between immersive theatre, comedy, live art and nightlife culture. The collective was co-founded by performer and producer Theodora van der Beek, whose six solo shows have toured internationally, alongside immersive experience-maker Nathan Ess and producer/curator Morgan Brame.

What if the future isn’t something that happens to us, but something that we can collectively imagine? This summer, Barbican Immersive presents In Other Worlds, the first major UK solo exhibition experience created with BAFTA-nominated film maker, artist, and speculative futurist Liam Young. Spanning three locations within the Barbican Centre, the exhibition transforms the Silk Street Entrance, The Curve and Car Park 5 into a sequence of cinematic future provocations.

This year Outernet London, the UK’s most visited cultural attraction, is proud to unveil its biggest ever programme of exhibitions and installations across the giant Outernet screens, all celebrating International Women’s Month. With everything completely free to enter, the programme will launch on International Women’s Day on March 8th and run throughout the rest of the month.

Horizon of Khufu: Journey to Ancient Egypt, an immersive virtual reality expedition back in time over 4,500 years ago, is set to make its debut in Manchester on 2nd April at Transmission House on Tib Street. This award-winning VR experience, created by Excurio and presented by Fever, offers audiences an unprecedented opportunity to explore the mysteries of the Great Pyramid from within.

Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Experience relaunches with new content throughout, including unparalleled new Virtual Reality, and other upgraded technologies, plus Jeff Wayne himself is now part of the Experience for the first time. The production is secured in London through to 2029 under a landmark four-year partnership.

London’s immersive sci-fi experience Bridge Command will celebrate its second anniversary on 27th March with the launch of a bold new chapter: the beginning of an all-out alien war. After two years of charting humanity’s survival in deep space, the story now shifts dramatically. As tensions in the Adamas Belt reach breaking point, Bridge Command will introduce a new high-stakes mission format, Frontline Missions, placing audiences directly into active combat zones.

Following the launch of Race Across the World: The Experience in London and Manchester last year, CityDays have announced that Race Across the World: The Experience will be coming to three new locations; Edinburgh, Bristol and York, this Spring.

After welcoming more than 130,000 visitors to the groundbreaking experience since its opening in September 2025, Banksy Limitless London will temporarily close on 23rd February for a refresh of its exhibition before reopening on 4th March. The refreshed experience unveils an exciting array of new discoveries, designed to captivate both first-time visitors and returning guests.

Have you ever wanted to spend eight hours in a basement watching a mysterious young man perform increasingly desperate rituals in a fruitless attempt to receive a blessing for a murder he already knows he must commit? I think most people would say no. Even to me, an admittedly slightly obsessive immersive theatre fan, seeing the entire show seemed ridiculous. Eight hours following one actor who never takes a break sounds dangerously close to performance art.