Giant Shoe Museum

Seattle’s Giant Shoe Museum in Pike Place Market is a tiny, one-wall exhibit that presents odd and oversized shoes behind sideshow-style curtains, more like an old arcade attraction than a conventional gallery. Visitors look through a stereoscope and use a coin box to see a collection said to include the world’s largest assortment of giant shoes, among them a size 37 shoe associated with Robert Wadlow. Designed and built in 1997 by Sven Sundbaum, the exhibit is owned and operated by Old Seattle Paperworks and curated by Dan Eskenazi. Its unusual format has made it one of the market’s best-known curiosities.

Seattle, Washington · United States