The $20,000 project had been in the planning stages for several years, according to the museum.
Wally spent 30 years on the grounds of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History before being given to the Berkshire Museum in October 1997, as a gift by Carol and Tom McCann. He got his name in a communitywide contest.
Wally, the fiberglass stegosaurus, returned to the Berkshire Museum on Monday, after restoration work at the Louis Paul Jonas Studios in Germantown, N.Y. Wally is a 26-foot-long, 12-foot-tall fiberglass model of a stegosaurus created by the Louis Paul Jonas Studios in Hudson, N.Y. The sculpture was the second made from a mold created for the Sinclair Dinoland pavilion at the New York Worldâs Fair in 1964-1965. The model currently at Berkshire Museum arrived in 1997, after 30 years outside the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Wally was renovated at the Louis Paul Jonas Studios in Germantown and returned to the lawn of the Berkshire Museum. Monday, July 26, 2021. BEN GARVER â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLEBEN GARVER â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE