Europe’s ice art displayed in Moscow
For this year’s winter exhibition, Europe’s biggest ice sculpture was unveiled on December 12, 2010 in Sokolniki Park in the Russian capital, Moscow.
About hundreds of hand-crafted ice sculptures can be found at a museum in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park. New sculptures, in this museum, are crafted twice a year.
The indoor ice sculpture museum occupies over 7,500 square feet. Now, it is welcoming visitors to gaze upon various frozen creations.
The sculptors used 800 tons of ice and 200 tons of snow to make the first exhibit. This amount of snow is said to be enough to cover a small Moscow street.
World-famous sculptors used this amount of ice and snow to construct a living room furnished with various ice fittings, a Christmas manger scene, a world of insects, an alien invasion, a prehistoric section with a giant mammoth, and more.
Museum visitors can go to the ice living room that is entirely decorated in ice chairs, mirror, a bed, and a fireplace.
Heavy winter coats can be borrowed at the entrance for those with thin skin. Evening is the best time to visit since colorful lighting is added to accentuate the artwork.
Established in 1878, Sokolniki Park is located near the center of Moscow and is considered an official “park of culture and leisure”. Moscow’s Sokolniki Park is home to Europe’s largest ice sculpture museum.
Source: presstv.ir
