Red Bull Turns Museum Into Skatepark

Red Bull and Canon have turned the Natural History Museum into a skatepark as part of a new activation.

A host of Red Bull skaters – including six time X-Games Gold Medalist, Leticia Bufoni, rising star Lore Bruggeman and Argentina’s Aldana Bertran – were given access to the museum and allowed to skate amongst many of the 80 million artifacts.

With the help of legendary skatepark designer Joe Ciaglia, the museum’s prominent exhibitions including the Minerals Hall and the iconic Hintze Hall, complete with Hope the whale, were transformed into skate-friendly areas overnight, with ramps and railings set up across the building to take advantage of the natural architecture in the space.

The trio of skaters were joined by skate legend Margie Didal and together they scoped out the whole museum to skate spots that no-one will ever skate again. 

Between 10pm and 5am the usually forbidden areas were turned into stunning locations for Leticia, Lore and Aldana to become the first people to skate in the Natural History Museum.

Red Bull skate athlete Leticia Bufoni said,“It was a historic moment for the skate scene. We are used to being kicked out of museums or their grounds, but on this occasion the Natural History Museum allowed us to come inside and create a park around their stuff. They had obviously never had ramps in there so it was cool to create them all and skate this once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I was pretty nervous skating around their artifacts. We were taking big risks to avoid damaging them. It was certainly one of the craziest nights of my life.”