Noah's Ark at Skirball

Five years in the mak­ing and fill­ing an 8,000 sq. ft. gallery,
Noah’s Ark at the Skir­ball is an amaz­ing attrac­tion for chil­dren
and fam­i­lies at the Skir­ball Cul­tural Cen­ter in Los Ange­les.
The floor-to-ceiling ark is filled to the rafters with hand­crafted
ani­mals and con­tains a ropes course with more than
30,000 hand-tied knots.

The hun­dreds of ani­mals are all crafted from recy­cled mate­ri­als
and every­day objects, includ­ing bot­tle caps, bicy­cle parts,
base­ball mitts, cro­quet balls, mop heads, and rearview mir­rors.

For exam­ple, the three ani­mal sculp­tures that pre­side over the
entrance to the gal­leries (pic­tured above) include an
Asian ele­phant with a trunk made from veg­etable steam­ers
from Loas and a pair of zebras with bod­ies fab­ri­cated from
wind tur­bines and keyboards.

Amaz­ing!

Pho­tos by Grant Mud­ford and Steve Cohn, © Skir­ball Cul­tural Center