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IconicWalker Art Center & Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Under $25Cutting-edge contemporary art beside the famous Spoonbridge and Cherry in the free Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
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Spoonbridge and Cherry
See a 52-foot spoon balancing a giant red cherry over a pond in the free Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
725 Vineland Pl · Minneapolis, MN
About Spoonbridge and Cherry
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen finished this fountain sculpture in 1988, and it has become an unofficial symbol of Minneapolis. The stainless steel and aluminum spoon stretches 52 feet across a pond shaped like a linden tree seed, and water sprays from the tip and base of the cherry's stem. It anchors the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, an 11-acre park beside the Walker Art Center with more than 60 artworks to walk among.
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