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Giant Shoe Museum

The exhibit in 2022
Location	Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Coordinates	47°36′31″N 122°20′27″W / 47.6086°N 122.3407°W / 47.6086; -122.3407

Giant Shoe Museum (sometimes the World Famous Giant Shoe Museum) is a museum in Seattle's Pike Place Market, in the U.S. state of Washington.

Description

The museum has "odd and outsize shoes displayed behind sideshow-style curtains", according to Harriet Baskas of CNBC. The one-wall exhibit allows guests to view shoes through a stereoscope. It has been described as "the world's largest collection of giant shoes", as well as "likely one of the world's few coin-operated museums".

History

The museum was designed and built by Sven Sundbaum in 1997. Owned and operated by adjacent Old Seattle Paperworks, the exhibit is curated by Dan Eskenazi.

Reception

Cody Permenter included the museum in Thrillist's 2015 list of "The 11 Strangest Museums in (and Around) Seattle". Christina Ausley of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer included the Giant Shoe Museum in a 2020 overview of the city's 14 "strangest" landmarks, writing: "Drop a humble 50 cents into a small coin box for the world's largest collection of giant shoes. Nestled a few floors below downtown Seattle's Pike Place Market, approach the flamboyant circus entryway and gaze through the binoculars for a myriad of Herculean hi-tops and a size 37 work by Robert Wadlow."

See also

• List of museums in Seattle

References

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2. Baskas, Harriet (26 January 2020). "The Overnight: What to do in Seattle if you're there on a business trip". CNBC. Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
3. Manzanares, Mary Jo (2021-09-15). Secret Seattle: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Reedy Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-68106-308-9. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
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7. Devine, Bob (2016). National Geographic Traveler - Coastal Alaska: Ports of Call and Beyond. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-1-4262-1635-0. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
8. Baskas, Harriet (2011-04-12). Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7627-6900-1. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
9. Landes, Cheryl; Rule, Ann; Tuttle, Craig (1999). Beautiful America's Seattle. Beautiful America Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-89802-708-2. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
10. "The 11 Strangest Museums in (and Around) Seattle". Thrillist. 4 August 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
11. Ausley, Christina (2020-02-22). "14 of Seattle's strangest landmarks: Have you found all of these classics?". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2022-10-22 – via KTVL.

External links

• Giant Shoe Museum at Pike Place Market
• Giant Shoe Museum at Roadside America
• World Famous Giant Shoe Museum at Atlas Obscura

• 1997 establishments in Washington (state)
• Central Waterfront, Seattle
• Museums established in 1997
• Museums in Seattle
• Pike Place Market