West Edmonton Mall
The West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is the second-largest shopping centre in North America. It is in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is one of the main tourist attractions in Alberta. The mall is also the fourth largest in the world. WEM first opened on September 15, 1981.
Attractions
In addition to the over 500 shops in the West Edmonton Mall, there are many other things which people go to the mall for.
- Galaxyland: The world's largest indoor Amusement park. The park has 24 rides. These rides include a triple loop rollercoaster.
- World Waterpark: world's largest indoor waterpark. The park includes the world's largest indoor wavepool. The wavepool can create waves up to 5–6 feet in height. It also has ten water slides. Its tallest water slide is 83 feet high.
- Deep Sea Adventure: An indoor salt water lake with performing sea lions. The lake also has a structure built to look like Christopher Columbus' Santa María.
The mall also has an Ice skating rink, miniature golf course, casino, skate park, hotel, petting zoo, three movie theaters and many other things to see.
West Edmonton Mall Media
The former fire-breathing dragon animatronic at Scotiabank Theatre, 28 March 2007.
In 2007, Peter Charney broke the world record for the most bungee jumps in 24 hours.
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Mindbender rollercoaster at Galaxyland, 26 August 2010.
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Main wavepool, 2 August 2014.
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The Ice Palace at the West Edmonton Mall during the 2015 The Brick youth hockey tournament
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Professor WEM's Adventure Golf viewed from top floor, 12 October 2015
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The Sea Lions Rock show at WEM in 2012
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Open Sea, a bronze whale by Robin Bell, in its original location before it moved to outside of the now-defunct Sears Canada and now the now-defunct Target Canada, and removed the water surrounding it, November 27, 2005. This sculpture is a statue of two North Atlantic right whales.
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A brass statue of a man eating a hamburger in a food court at West Edmonton Mall.
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Running In oil workers statue by Robin Bell, 2 January 2016
Other websites
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- Official site Archived 2007-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
- A map of the mall Archived 2007-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
- The list of shops in the mall Archived 2007-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Hours of Operation Archived 2007-05-22 at the Wayback Machine