Art & Putt Mini Golf at Clarks Village in Street, Somerset

Clarks Village outlet shopping mall in Street, Somerset will have an Art & Putt Mini Golf course this summer.

Art & Putt Mini Golf is a 9-hole mini golf course and will be set-up from Saturday 19th July to Sunday 31st August.

The holes and obstacles on the Art & Putt Mini Golf course are inspired by influential artists from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Check out the Clarks Village website for more information.

Skyline Mini Golf at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis

The Skyline Mini Golf course is returning to the rooftop of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA this month.

The 10-hole Skyline Mini Golf course tees-off on the 21st May.

The minigolf season at the Walker Art Center runs until the 5th October.

As big fans of minigolf, and curators of the Crazy Golf Museum, it's always interesting seeing minigolf/museum crossovers.

Check out the Walker Art Center website for more information.

Our friends Tom and Robin from A Couple of Putts have been involved with the Walker Art Center and the various incarnations of the minigolf course there for a number of years and sent us a copy of the 2018 edition scorecard for our collection.

A Walker Art Centre artist-designed Mini Golf scorecard from A Couple of Putts, 2018

Cranbrook on the Green minigolf course now open at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Information about the Cranbrook on the Green minigolf course at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.

As big fans of minigolf, and curators of the Crazy Golf Museum, it's always interesting seeing minigolf/museum crossovers.

Each summer Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan hosts Cranbrook on the Green, a pop-up artist-designed mini-golf course.

This year the course opened on the 3rd May and is open until the 28th September.

Check out the Cranbrook Art Museum website for more information.

Our friends Tom and Robin at A Couple of Putts were involved in the creation of the course. You can find out more on their website.

Swingers: The Art of Mini Golf

A new playable art minigolf exhibition installation at Flinders Street Station is opening in Melbourne, Australia.

Swingers: The Art of Mini Golf opens at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia on the 4th June and runs until the 31st August.

The Swingers: The Art of Mini Golf course at Flinders Street Station will be a 9-hole playable exhibition, with each hole created by a female artist.

The exhibition is part of the 2025 Rising festival. Find out more about Swingers: The Art of Mini Golf on the Rising website.

The art exhibition has chosen miniature golf as its focus as the game was created to allow female players to play. The Himalayas Putting course at St Andrews, Scotland was created in 1867 specifically for female players to use.

Mini-ART-ure Golf at the Muskegon Museum of Art (back in 2022)

Looking back at the Mini-ART-ure Golf playable exhibit at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan, USA.

As big fans of minigolf, and curators of the Crazy Golf Museum, it's always interesting seeing minigolf/museum crossovers.

Back in 2022 the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan had a Mini-ART-ure Golf course where visitors could play a 9-hole mini-golf course inside the museum. The course was set up between January and May of that year.

Check out the Muskegon Museum of Art website for more information.

Mini Golf at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri

There's an art-inspired mini golf course at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

As big fans of minigolf, and curators of the Crazy Golf Museum, it's always interesting seeing minigolf/museum crossovers.

Art Course is an artist designed outdoor 9-hole miniature golf course location in the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park and each of the holes is a creative interpretation of a work in the museum's collection.

Check out the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art website for more information.

Our friends Tom & Robin at A Couple of Putts were involved in the creation of the course. You can find out more on their website.

Cranbrook on the Green at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Information about Cranbrook on the Green at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.

As big fans of minigolf, and curators of the Crazy Golf Museum, it's always interesting seeing minigolf/museum crossovers.

Each summer Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan hosts Cranbrook on the Green, a pop-up artist-designed mini-golf course.

This year the course is open from the 3rd May until the 28th September.

Check out the Cranbrook Art Museum website for more information.

Our friends Tom & Robin at A Couple of Putts were involved in the creation of the course. You can find out more on their website.

Libertee Grounds Mini-Golf outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2024)

Last year saw a pop-up mini-golf course created outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

As big fans of minigolf, and curators of the Crazy Golf Museum, it's always interesting seeing minigolf/museum crossovers.

The team at Libertee Grounds hosted a Philadelphia-themed pop-up mini-golf course called Libertee Grounds at Eakins Oval outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art last year.

Check out the Libertee Grounds website for more information.

The CLUB GOLF pop-up minigolf course in London

Looking back at the CLUB GOLF pop-up minigolf course at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London.

The last new minigolf course I played before the coronavirus pandemic lockdown struck was the CLUB GOLF pop-up minigolf course at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London.

The 9-hole rave-inspired art installation crazy golf course was the 948th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and the 542nd played.

Artists Baker & Borowski created the 9-hole themed Crazy Golf layout inspired by the rave culture in the King's Cross area back in the 1980's and 1990's.

I shot a round of 23 in my game - the scorecard noted that the maximum score allowed was 63! That would be a seven on each hole!

It was a fun course to play and well spaced out around Coal Drop's Yard.

It's crazy to think we would get to have another game of minigolf in again until August 2020.

The C O U N T Y part of S T O C K P O R T

Spotting some more street art in Stockport.

We recently noticed some newly placed street art in the form of mosaic tiles spelling out "STOCKPORT" along Castle Street in Edgeley. It was a nice surprise to see it, and after a bit of research we found that the group behind the street art were Grit Studios, Mosaics in Manchester, Stockport County Community Trust, and The Writing Squad.

During another wander around our local area we spotted another "O", which led us to find other tile art letters that spelled out "COUNTY".

A trail map for the S T O C K P O R T letter mosaic artwork is coming soon...

New mosaic tile street art in Edgeley, Stockport

Finding some new mosaic tile street art in Edgeley, Stockport.

We're big fans of street art and it's always fun spotting new pieces when wandering. Earlier this week we spotted a new piece showing a circle/letter O on the side of The Friary fish & chip shop on Castle Street in Edgeley and on a subsequent walk found the letter R on the Royal Oak pub, so guessed there were more letters that would spell out the word "STOCKPORT"!

We did a bit of further research - as well as receiving a comment from the artists on Instagram - and found that the group behind the new mosaic tile street art in Edgeley were Grit Studios, Mosaics in Manchester, Stockport County Community Trust, and The Writing Squad. It's from some of the same team that were behind the prominent 'The Scarf My Father Wore' mural project in Edgeley.

The Scarf My Father Wore Mural, snow and Christmas tree in Edgeley in January this year

A trail map for the S T O C K P O R T letter mosaic artwork is coming soon...

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You can find some other nice mosaics in Edgeley at the Library on Edgeley Road.

There's also a lot of superb street art around the town centre and wider borough.

We're big fans of Invader's work too, and you can find Invader Was Here mosaics in Manchester city centre.

We'll be keeping an eye our for more of Mosaics in Manchester's work too - we've seen some pieces on our walks around the city before.

Check out these other posts about mosaics on the blog.

S T O C K P O R T mosaic tile street art in Edgeley, Stockport

Spotting some new mosaic tile street art in Edgeley, Stockport.

We're big fans of street art and it's always fun spotting new pieces when wandering. We noticed a new piece showing a circle/letter O on the side of The Friary fish & chip shop on Castle Street in Edgeley and on a subsequent walk found the letter R on the Royal Oak pub, so guessed there were more letters that would spell out the word "STOCKPORT"!

Mosaic tile street art on Castle Street in Edgeley, Stockport

There are no other markings on the artwork so we don't know who did it, and we're pretty sure they're very recent additions to the fabric of Edgeley as we are round that way pretty much every day and hadn't noticed them before.

They're a very nice touch, so a job well done to the artist or artists behind them. 

An End to Sleep Miniature Golf at von ammon co in Washington DC

There's an art-based minigolf course at the von ammon co art gallery in Washington DC, USA.

I've found out about a new art-based minigolf installation at the von ammon co art gallery in Washington DC.

The playable six-hole miniature golf installation has been created by Detroit based artist Tony Hope and is called "An End to Sleep", with each hole based on a scene from the Nightmare on Elm Street films.

The course opened on the 11th September and is playable up to and including Halloween itself.

Visit the von ammon co website to find out more.

We've played a number of art-based courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. We're big fans of horror movies and Halloween too so An End to Sleep Miniature Golf would be a very interesting layout to view and play.

Crazy Golf in London

A look back at the CLUB GOLF pop-up minigolf course at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London.

My last trip down to London took place on the 25th February last year and I was lucky enough to get a game in on the pop-up Crazy Golf course at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross.

It was the last new minigolf course I played before the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

The 9-hole rave-inspired art installation crazy golf course was the 948th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and the 542nd played.

Artists Baker & Borowski created the 9-hole themed Crazy Golf layout inspired by the rave culture in the King's Cross area back in the 1980's and 1990's.

I shot a round of 23 in my game - the scorecard noted that the maximum score allowed was 63! A seven on each hole.

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Invaders in Manchester

A look at a piece of Invader street art in Manchester.

It was nice to have a walk round Manchester again for the first time in a while on Saturday.

One of the best free-to-do activities in the city centre is to look for street art. There's plenty of it about.

Space Invaders

Manchester is the site of an Invasion by French street artist Invader. He created 47 pieces of mosaic tile art with a total points value of 970 back in 2004.

You have to look in a wide-range of places to see the Invaders

Over the years some of these retro video game inspired pieces have been damaged, removed or stolen. While some have been lost entirely because the building they were on has been demolished!

Luckily some of these lost Invaders have been replaced.

Look up!

CLUB GOLF pop-up minigolf in King's Cross, London

A look at the CLUB GOLF pop-up minigolf course at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London.

The out-of-home part of our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour is currently paused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The 948th, and last new, course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour was the CLUB GOLF pop-up at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London.

I played the 9-hole rave-inspired art installation crazy golf course in February this year.

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World Art Day - art and minigolf

Today is World Art Day.

A look at art installation minigolf courses and crazy golf sculptures.

We've seen the worlds of art and minigolf combine a number of times over the years.

A relatively new term for this combination is 'artainment' - where art and entertainment mix to immerse visitors to an exhibition, gallery or installation in an interactive experience.

It'll be interesting to see where the next art-based minigolf course we play is when the coronavirus pandemic is over.

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- Art
- Artainment
- Artainment and the world of minigolf

Snooker at CLUB GOLF

Anyone for snooker?

The last new minigolf course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour was the pop-up rave-inspired art installation Crazy Golf course at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London.

It was the 948th course visited on our travels since September 2006.

Anyone for snooker?

One of the 9-holes was snooker-themed.

A snooker crazy golf hole

The putting surface

Rules

The pipe takes the ball down along the stairs

The bottom part of the hole

The green

Take a look at some of the stranger miniature golf and cue-sports crossover games we've played in this blog post.

We've seen and played a number of minigolf/snooker cross-over holes, courses and obstacles