2291. Go to the Schaumburg Sculpture Park in Schaumburg

 I am a sucker for a sculpture park. I love to see random sculptures and have I've seen random random sculptures over the years. When I stumbled upon the Schaumburg Sculpture Park I figured it would be a good stop if we needed to kill time before the Sock Monkey Museum open in Long Grove.

The Schaumburg Sculpture Park is located on the grounds on Municipal Center. It is open year round. It is free to visit. We parked by the Al Larson Prairie Center. 

At first we were confused on where these sculptures were located it as we didn't see any. There was an open grassy area with a walking trail but no sculptures in sight. We headed towards the fountain on the other side of the Prairie Center. We found Awaking Muse which was a lady half buried in a hill. It was actually very beautiful sculpture. It would have been fun to take picture on but it was roped off.

Wandering a bit we found a very weird wire sculpture called Fiberware. It was hard to see in the sunshine since it was thin metal rods sticking up from the ground. It really didn't even look like art.

Finally we found a trail that headed into the woods and it was marked as the sculpture park. 

Initially we were going to walk to the first sculpture which we thought looked like a toilet. 

Since we found the path, we decided to keep going to see what else there was. We found some pretty cool art. Each piece was unique and some were left up to more interpretation than others. 

The path was not very long. It ended near a church parking lot and we had to turn around and go back the same way we came. 

To be honest, it was not much of a sculpture park... Sculpture path maybe. I was expecting a decent walk to check out art. If we spent 30 minutes at the sculpture park, that was a lot. I'm glad it was free because if I paid money, I would have really felt ripped off. 

Now don't get me wrong, if you appreciate art and nature you might find this place enjoyable to to a casual visitor looking for some fun art, there really wasn't much. We did have time to kill so I guess it was worth it in that sense but overall I left disappointed. I saw more fun sculptures at Edgewood Orchard Galleries in Door County.