SPYSCAPE: Epic interactive spy museum opens in London - here's what you need to know

New York’s top-rated museum and interactive experience has officially opened in the UK.

SPYSCAPE, which has attracted over one million visitors since its launch in NYC, has opened its doors in Covent Garden.

In a city built on secrets, SPYSCAPE London, situated at 45 Wellington Street in the heart of Covent Garden, will be the home to a new kind of cultural experience.

This new 25,000sq ft location offers a new take on immersive activities, seamlessly blending the history, the art, and science of espionage and psychology in the modern world.

Designed explicitly for London audiences, the venue invites guests to step into the shoes of an intelligence operative through a series of personalized immersive challenges.

Visitors have the choice of participating in two ticketed experiences. SPYSCAPE, a narrative-led interactive museum based upon real tradecraft and interactive challenges developed by a former Head of Training at MI6, and SPYGAMES, the social gaming experience, where teams of two or more players tackle fun, high-tech challenges crafted with expertise from the CIA and Special Ops.

SPYSCAPE tests the key spy skills we use in our everyday lives, including empathy, perception, observation, analysis, and risk-taking. Each visitor receives an authentic and detailed 40-page profile of their unique mix of personality, skills, and attributes. These personal profiles provide insights into the roles we are each best suited to - inside and outside the spy world.

Housed in the same venue, SPYGAMES is a high-octane, team-based experience for two to five players. It invites teams to test their mental and physical skills across kinetic, time-pressured challenges, where they jump, climb, dodge, and solve in dynamic, high-tech zones.

The experience doesn’t end there. The Covent Garden site introduces an entirely new feature. Before leaving, each SPYSCAPE visitor will receive a covert objective: a mission that continues beyond SPYSCAPE’s walls and into the streets of Covent Garden, where the story continues to unfold.

“Your mission, should you choose to accept it. Is to discover what kind of spy you really are,” says James, a secret operative and SPYSCAPE’s anonymous spokesperson. “You don’t need to scale the Burj Khalifa or hang off a helicopter to be a spy. Spying has always been about mindset. Or, as a certain agent once said, ‘Know your enemy — and know yourself. “

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