Dubai: Global Village, the world’s leading multicultural festival park and the region’s first family destination for culture, shopping, and entertainment, is set to wow guests and take them on a journey of the world’s weirdest and wackiest oddities with momentous upgrades at Ripley’s Believe It or Not!® Odditorium ahead of the Season 26 opening. 

Naveen Jain, Business Development Director at Global Village said: “Every Season we want to wow our guests with new and exciting things to do and see. This season we are bringing over 50 new and iconic exhibits to Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum attraction as well as a frightening new gallery.  Together with the 4Dx theatre and the upgraded mirror maze, we’re pretty sure that our guests will be strangely delighted by all the weirdness!” 

Delivering a world of different, the highly popular Ripley's Believe it or Not! museum attraction bursting with vibrant and eye-catching oddities is a must-visit for every curious mind at Global Village. 

Ripley’s Believe It or Not!® Odditorium at Global Village has six unique galleries, showcasing a diverse collection of rare real life exhibits and hands-on interactive experiences. When visiting the attraction, Global Village guests will have the opportunity to personally discover over 250 rare artefacts, unbelievable exhibits, wax figures of strange, unusual and historical people, interactive games, and a Vortex Tunnel so mind-bending you have to experience it to believe it! A new “Dark Gallery” will be introduced this season which will thrill fans of the horror genre. Guests can see hard to believe yet true exhibits of ancient prison punishment.  

For the first time in Season 26, Ripley’s will introduce a 4Dx Moving Theatre that will deliver an immersive experience unlike any in the Middle East. The theatre features 'Three Degrees of Freedom', a unique motion experience powered by 4Dx effects and virtual reality features.  Guests will feel the movement of the on-screen action in the spacious motion seats, experience water effects such as mist and rain, experience wind with a gentle breeze or a turbulent storm and smell a variety of scents. 

Ripley’s Marvellous Mirror Maze – boasting over 100 mirrors, LED lighting, and digital sound – is now upgraded with immersive water and Augmented Reality (AR) features. Guests have to focus all five senses to find their way out of a dazzling labyrinth of mirrored reflections and surprising corners.