The Once and Future Luna Luna Art Amusement Park

Photo caption: In an undated photo, American artist Keith Haring works on the colorful carousel he designed for the original 1987 Luna Luna. The carousel features three-dimensional characters based on the line-drawn figures he became famous for. Photo credit: Sabina Sarnitz, Courtesy Phaidon. Article by Sarah Durn. Atlas Obscura – March 28, 2023.

In the summer of 1987, the world’s first art amusement park opened in a lush, green park outside Hamburg, Germany. Borrowing its name from Coney Island’s Luna Park, the colorful carnival was unlike anything that had ever come before—or since. Some 250,000 people visited the park that summer to marvel over and even ride dozens of fairground amusements designed and built by some of the era’s most influential artists. […]

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