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 The Forevertron
N 43° 21.853 W 089° 46.266
16T E 275465 N 4804991
The world's largest scrap metal sculpture, in a sculpture park just south of Baraboo, Wisconsin
Waymark Code: WM19G3
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 03/05/2007
Views: 52
From Wikipedia:
Forevertron is the largest scrap metal sculpture in the world. Its creator, Dr. Evermor, was born Tom Every in Brooklyn, Wisconsin is a former demolition expert who spent decades collecting antique machinery for the sculpture and the surrounding fiction that justifies it. According to Every, Dr. Evermor is a fictional Victorian inventor who designed the Forevertron to launch himself "into the heaven on a magnetic lightning force beam." In addition to the Forevertron itself, Every/Evermor has built a tea house from which he says Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (both long dead in reality) may observe the event. The sculpture incorporates an actual decontamination chamber from the Apollo Project, as well as dynamos built by Thomas Edison in 1882.
In addition to the Forevertron, the sculpture park is filled with a large number of unique scrap metal creations.
The park is open from 9 to 5 on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and from Noon to 5 on Sundays. It is closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Title: The Forevertron
Artist: Dr. Evermor
Media (materials) used: Scrap metal
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Sculpture Park
Date of creation or placement: 1983
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