Hey guys! I was thinking about this place I visited over winter break after our discussions on Tuesday about our digital interactive project. Its called "house on the Rock", and it's a little north of Madison Wisconsin. It was awesome; this guy built the world largest carousel, none of the animals on it are horses...all wierd monster creatures. He also made these amazing music machines....they were instruments that were robotacized (if that a word) to play music by themselves with the push of a button. He basically was a businessman that began to collect things, and he built this house into this massive cliff/rock in which to put it all. I think you guys should look at the following to links; the space he created definitely takes a stab at reframing the idea about what a museum, and possibly an art collection, can look like in kind of an extreme way. Never mind the stuff about the resort and what not...just the history part and the photo gallery gives you kind of an idea....
http://www.houseontherock.com/HOTR_AttractionMain.htm
http://www.houseontherock.com/HOTR_Attraction_PhotoGalleryShow.htm
Wow I'm pretty impressed that he built a house big enough to put a barn, a full church-size organ, and a carousel, and more! Reminds me of a Ripley's Believe or Not museum!
ReplyDeletefirst thought when i looked at this was of the roger brown study collection. if you haven't, go check it out. it's awesome.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.saic.edu/webspaces/rogerbrown/brown/index.html