Noah’s Ark at the Skirball

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Noah's Ark at the 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

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  • http://twitter.com/mecbc Christina

    That is just awe­some! My chil­dren would love it.

    What a labour of love and very impres­sive that so much of the mate­ri­als have been upcy­cled. It looks fan­tas­tic. Thanks

  • http://www.peppersproutdesigns.com jen

    I wish I was vis­it­ing LA to see this.… seems the most inter­est­ing art move­ment right now is on the west coast instead of NYC.

    Thank you for shar­ing these lovely photos!

  • http://www.lethacolleen.blogspot.com Letha­Colleen

    OH WOW…my heart just bursts at see­ing this. Such a gift to all (and not just chil­dren) for the pur­poses of imag­i­na­tion and exploration!

  • http://www.definingduo.com/ Brigitta Ryan {duo}

    Oh my gosh this is amaz­ing. I just love it. Its just so well crafted and I really appre­ci­ate that every­thing is made with recy­cled materials.

    Btw does any­one else think it’s weird that Noah’s Ark is a “children’s story”? Just given it’s about a flood killing every­one on the planet? No? Just me? Ha.

  • Thalita Dol

    Woooooooow! That’s amaz­ing indeed!

    hugs from Brazil!
    (thalitadol.blogspot.com)