28/03/07
24/09/06 - City Museum, Saint Louis
Je veux aller là !!!!
"Welcome to the CITY MUSEUM, where the imagination runs wild!
Housed in the 600,000 square-foot former International Shoe Company, the museum is an eclectic mixture of children's playground, funhouse, surrealistic pavilion, and architectural marvel made out of unique, 
found objects. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed artist Bob Cassilly, a classically trained sculptor and serial entrepreneur, the museum opened for visitors in 1997 to the riotous approval of young and old alike.
Cassilly and his longtime crew of 20 artisans have constructed the museum from the very stuff of the city; and, as a result, it has urban roots deeper than any other institutions'. Reaching no 
farther than municipal borders for its reclaimed building materials, the CITY MUSEUM boasts features such as old chimneys, salvaged bridges, construction cranes, miles of tile, and even two abandoned planes!"
"The CITY MUSEUM makes you want to know," says Cassilly. "The point is not to learn every fact, but to say, 'Wow, that's wonderful.' And if it's wonderful, it's 
worth preserving."
J'ai envie de ramper dans un tunnel de fil de fer au dessus d'un avion abandonné, envie de parcourir des caves mystérieuses peuplées de dragons et de fumées colorées, envie de visiter un musée de l'incroyable et de voir le plus grand slip du monde ! Et 
tout ça en matériaux de récup', les déchets urbains à la merci du rêve...
Ils ont même des lofts disponibles... et là je défaille pleinement !! 
Lisez aussi l'article de Weeks sur WhipUp qui m'a fait découvrir le musée, je suis tout à fait d'accord avec elle : "It shouldn’t be called City Museum. It should be called 
Phantasmagoria Central or something." (lui ai piqué qq photos^^)
GO NOW (if you can) !!