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The Los Angeles edition of the Sloomoo Institute opened in 2024 on Fairfax Avenue, bringing the slime-themed sensory attraction to the West Coast in a large, vividly coloured space. Following the model of the brand's earlier venues in New York and other cities, it builds an entire experience around the tactile pleasures of slime, blending play, design and a dash of wellness. The institute traces its origins to two friends who found unexpected calm and delight in handling slime and set out to share that feeling, framing the brand around sensory play, joy and connection rather than mere novelty. Its playful, invented name and its commitment to inclusion, including a neurodiverse workforce, are part of the identity carried across every location. The roughly 13,000-square-foot Los Angeles venue offers the brand's hallmarks at generous scale: a DIY bar where guests blend their own slime from millions of combinations, vats of textured and scented slime to squish, kinetic-sand dunes, ASMR audio installations, immersive video and a mirrored sound-bath room. Crowd-pleasing features let visitors get doused with slime and walk across a pool of soft cloud slime. Its Fairfax Avenue location places it in a lively, fashion-conscious stretch of the city near the Grove and the Original Farmers Market. For visitors the institute is a short, joyful and gleefully messy outing of around an hour, well suited to families, groups and parties. Tickets are timed and bought ahead, the make-your-own slime is an added option, and the indoor setting offers a fun, weatherproof activity within easy reach of the surrounding shopping and dining of central Los Angeles. The venue trades on its vivid colours, satisfying textures and slime-dousing features to create a space built for sharing on social media. Staff lead guests through the various stations, and the make-your-own bar lets visitors choose colours, scents and add-ins to carry home a personalised pot of slime. As a playful, weatherproof activity in a famously sunny city, it offers a deliberately silly, screen-free hour and has quickly found a following among families, friends and the social-media-minded.

Type: Tourist Attraction

Address: 157 S Fairfax Ave, Ground Floor, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Website: https://www.sloomooinstitute.com

Opening Date: 08/09/2024