Albany Carousel
This is the Albany Carousel.
This VR of the Albany Carousel is my entry for the WWP theme of Revival. The theme was chosen to commemorate the restarting the WWP after some issues that slowed it down during 2019. With the carousel, the new project built on old parts includes fantastic animals, likely more elaborate than the original due to the passion and skill of the volunteers. Hopefully the WWP can experience the same sort of revival due to passionate involvement of its supporters.
The Albany Carousel is a brand-new menagerie style carousel that includes a spectacular variety of hand-carved animals. They range from basic horses to fantastical dragons. It is built upon a 1909 Dentzel Carousel Corporation mechanism that was donated to the project. Thus, it is a spectacular example of renewal, rebuilding upon an existing framework to create something wonderful and new.
In addition to the carousel itself, the site contains a carving studio where you watch people work and see new items in various steps of the process, a museum, a store, and some other spaces for group events, etc.