Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy now open!!

The rescued, resurrected and rehabilitated Luna Luna art amusement park is now open in Los Angeles, CA!!

The original park appeared in Hamburg, Germany in 1987. Many of the then unconventional visual artists took part in the park's design including Keith Haring, Salvador Dali, David Hockney and Basquiat among others. After its closure due to loss of funding, the park's elements were stowed in Conex boxes ending up in Texas with an unknown future.

That future has had a positive development through the efforts of Dream Crew, a multi-disciplinary media company. As a result, pieces in the original park have been rehabilitated and are being exhibited in a couple of Los Angeles, CA warehouses. It is now open through the spring of 2024.

It sounds like a fascinating, fun and imaginative project for the visual artists that were involved in the original project as well as those that are re-inventing the idea and its ability to delight new audiences.

For more information and tickets, visit this Luna Luna weblink.

Below are links to an article and the CBS video that shows even more.

Smithsonian Magazine article about Luna Luna

Link to CBS News article and video

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