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Sep 16, 20172 min read

Fabricating SF Ice Cream Museum Decor


WeCutFoam is very excited to have been a part of the fabricators teams for the newly opened Ice Cream Museum in San Francisco, creating the ground structures for the "Candy Land" Room.


foam decor props fabricated by WeCutFoam for Ice Cream museum exhibit in San Francisco
Ice Cream Museum Decor

We machined over 100 large EPS foam pieces to create the play ground structures, then hand sanded them.

We started out with a sketch file given to us by the museum designers. We then turned it into a 3D CAD file to be able to use our CNC router machines to cut the foam shapes.

We used five different CNC routers, with a total of about 300 machining hours.

CNC machined styrofoam structure for creating a ground structure for Ice Cream museum exhibit in SF
CNC machined Playground structure
CNC machined styrofoam structure for creating a ground structure for Ice Cream museum exhibit in SF
CNC machined Playground structure
spraying polyurea hard coating over CNC machined styrofoam for creating a ground structure for Ice Cream museum exhibit in SF
Polyurea hard coated Playground structure

We transported the pieces to the museum, glued them together on spot and assembled them. We then sprayed hard coating Polyurea using our Graco E-10 Reactor.

The coating used was hard, yet elastic so that the visitors will be able to step on the structure, thus creating an interactive exhibit.

Spraying polyurea hard coat over a playground structure for Candyland exhibit at Icer Cream Museum
Polyurea hard coating over museum exhibit
Spraying polyurea hard coat over a playground structure for Candyland exhibit at Icer Cream Museum
Polyurea coating a museum exhibit

The museum team then covered all hard coated structures with pink turf fake grass and fiberglass figures were placed on top. The room exhibit was created in the spirit of Candy Land children game, therefor the walls were painted colorful and the fiberglass props were gummy bears, lollipops and candies.

foam decor props fabricated by WeCutFoam for Ice Cream museum exhibit in San Francisco
Candy Land exhibit
foam decor props fabricated by WeCutFoam for Ice Cream museum exhibit in San Francisco
Candyland Exhibit in Ice Cream Museum
foam decor props fabricated by WeCutFoam for Ice Cream museum exhibit in San Francisco
Candyland Ice Cream museum exhibit

The end result is a Candy Land themed room, where visitors can walk on, play and take pictures aside the props and fiberglass figures.

The room decoration that we fabricated is one of many interactive rooms at the Museum. Others include ice cream tasting, letters magnet room, unicorn rainbow room, sprinkles “diving” pool and many more. In this place you can see, feel, touch, smell and taste the flavors. The museum designers and founders meant to create a place where ideas and dreams are transformed into real life experiences to facilitate imagination and bring people together.

Ice Cream museum in San Francisco exhibit rooms
Ice Cream museum exhibit

Ice Cream museum exhibit for their newly opened San Francisco location
Ice Cream museum exhibit
Ice Cream museum exhibit for their San Francisco pop up location
Ice Cream museum exhibit

To see more of our foam cutting and machining projects, visit our website http://www.wecutfoam.com

To Visit the Ice Cream Museum Web Site go to https://www.museumoficecream.com/san-francisco/

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