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teacher in South Korea has turned a lifetime love of Pinocchio into a
museum. The Pinocchio Familia Museum in northeastern Seoul houses her
dolls, artwork and ephemera related to the Italian tale of a wooden
puppet that became a real boy. Renowned Korean architect Moon Hoon designed the three whimsically-shaped buildings of the
museum. They are named Wave and Whale, Whale Tale, and Nose Fountain.
The
Nose Fountain is the final building making up the Pinocchio Familia
Museum. It is seemingly simple, but it is a great finishing touch to the
whale-inspired structure. It is also perhaps the most relevant building
to the main character behind the Museum. It features an elongated pipe
affixed to its nose, and this small detail represents Pinocchio’s
elongated nose. What’s more, the pipe is continuously spouting out water
to add an element of the sea.
When a nose spouts water, the sea is not exactly what I think of. Take a tour of
the architecture of the Pinocchio Familia Museum at Housely.
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