Museum of Vancouver
Six-metre stainless steel crab fountain, pincers raised in silent guard at a heritage museum's entrance.
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This guide to the Museum of Vancouver traces the origin of the giant steel crab fountain guarding its entrance, from a 1960s design competition won by the reclusive sculptor George Norris to the Haida legend of a harbor guardian that inspired it. It follows welder Gus Lidberg building the twenty-foot creature near Main Street, and the unusual way it finally reached the museum grounds. Worth a slow circle on foot, close enough to see the plates of steel Lidberg welded by hand.
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