The white rabbit of “Alice in Wonderland” greets guests at the beginning of the walk-through “Phantasma” experience. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Dia de los Muertos imagery, including bejeweled skeletons (calacas) and sugar skulls (calaveras), is a part of the “Phantasma” experience at Gregangelo Museum. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Dia de los Muertos imagery, including bejeweled skeletons (calacas) and sugar skulls (calaveras), is a part of the “Phantasma” experience at Gregangelo Museum. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Dia de los Muertos imagery, including bejeweled skeletons (calacas) and sugar skulls (calaveras), is a part of the “Phantasma” experience at Gregangelo Museum. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Dia de los Muertos imagery, including bejeweled skeletons (calacas) and sugar skulls (calaveras), is a part of the “Phantasma” experience at Gregangelo Museum. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Colorful, masked circus performers get to put on a show in the pandemic at “Phantasma.” (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Colorful, masked circus performers get to put on a show in the pandemic at “Phantasma.” (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Colorful, masked circus performers get to put on a show in the pandemic at “Phantasma.” (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
As “Phantasma,” many types of specters appear during the experience. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
A ukulele performance is also part of the “Phantasma” experience at Gregangelo Museum. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
As “Phantasma,” many types of specters appear during the experience. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
As “Phantasma,” many types of specters appear during the experience. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Belly dancers perform with live snakes in Scheherazade’s palace in “Phantasma” at Gregangelo Museum. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Belly dancers perform with live snakes in Scheherazade’s palace in “Phantasma” at Gregangelo Museum. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
A veiled dancer performs in Scheherazade’s palace in the walk-through “Phantasma” experience at Gregangelo Museum. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Otherworldly, dancing vegetation is part of the surreal experience at “Phantasma.” (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida) 
Guests encounter a psychedelic scene in Pan’s forest in the walk-through “Phantasma” experience at Gregangelo Museum in San Francisco. (Photo by Hiromi Yoshida)
“It’s like an existential, psychedelic experience.”
At the Gregangelo Museum, there will be snakes. There will be ukuleles and looking glasses and floors littered with crystals. For 20 minutes, the world falls away, in its place a winding maze of human venus fly traps, jugglers, and a run in with Scheherazade. All this, called “Phantasma,” takes place within the yard of a home in the St. Francis Wood neighborhood in San Francisco, thanks to owner, founder of Velocity Circus/Arts and Entertainment, Gregangelo Herrera.
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