Rodin Museum

Jules E. Mast, Philadelphia major movie magnate and one of its best-known philanthropist, to enrich the collection with works by Auguste Rodin in 1923 with the express intention of the founding of a museum the lives of his fellow citizens. He sat on the assembly is a collection of Rodin's work, acquiring not only finished bronzes, but plaster studies, drawings, prints, letters and books. By the time of his death in 1926, mast had brought together the greatest Rodin collection outside of Paris. He also had two great French neoclassical architect working in Philadelphia, Paul Cret and Jacques Greber, a museum and garden together, but not live to see it completed.

The Rodin Museum, which opened to the public in 1929, houses 124 sculptures, including bronze casts of the artist's greatest works: The Thinker, perhaps the most famous sculpture in the world, The Burghers of Calais, his heroic and moving historical tribute; eternal spring, a of the most powerful works on human love, powerful monuments to leading French intellectuals such as Apotheosis of Victor Hugo, and the height of his creation, The Gates of Hell, on which the artist from 1880 until his death in 1917

About the Museum's Garden

More than 60,000 visitors annually make the trip to this spectacular museum and the gardens to see them surrounded. Designed by Jacques Greber have as part of the overall plan of the museum remained the Rodin Gardens a quiet respite from the clatter of the city, also known as Parkway changed over the years.

As Rodin himself knew, is the appreciation of works of art enhanced by nature and that is the target of the Rodin gardens. The reflecting pool in the garden courtyard reminds quiet and reminiscent of the cool beauty, the experience of visitors within the building.