Thursday, February 7, 2019

The Balboa Park Carousel Egg

A cool artifact on display at the SD Natural History Museum


  • Scale replica of the venerable Balboa Park Carousel
  • Made of gold/platinum/diamonds/silver
  • Height:27"
  • Weight: 80 lbs
  • 5,000 individual parts
  • Base: music box encased in crystal

Photo credit: Elite Traveler
Photo credit: Roadtrippers

1 comment:

Parm said...

Thanks for including the metadata re height and such. I was beyond needing to know that. Amazing detail. Wonder if this was the work of one obsessed individual, or if a multitude of people were involved? Or if some dang 13-year old accomplished this with their 3D-printer?