Rodin Museum Rodin Museum Administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia
Admission: There is limited parking A contribution of $. per around the Museum. person is suggested. Photography: Hours: Visitors are welcome to use Tuesday through Sunday, hand-held cameras. Tripods : a.m. to : p.m. Closed are not permitted. Mondays and holidays. (Hours subject to change.) Friends of the Rodin Museum: Museum Store and Membership in the Friends Visitors’ Center: of the Rodin Museum helps The Store and Visitors’ Center support the maintenance of the offers opportunities to view Museum, its collections, and informative videos about gardens through annual dues Rodin’s life and work. and volunteer efforts. Annual membership starts at $. Tours: For information, contact the Friends of the Rodin Museum, Inform audio tours are available . c/o Development Department, at the Visitors’ Center for $ Philadelphia Museum of Art, and allow for random-access P.O. B ox , Philadelphia, information about the Museum PA -. --. and selected sculptures. Free guided tours are available. Publications: For days and times, call A fully-illustrated scholarly --.Groups of or catalogue and a handbook of more may arrange private tours the collection are available. by calling --.School groups, call --.Col- Accessibility: -- lege groups, call . Parking and barrier-free access available. Listening systems, Transportation: touch tours, Braille and large- SEPTA buses numbers , , print materials are available by , , , and the Phlash calling in advance, --. Downtown Visitor Shuttle. TTY --.
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Jules E. Mastbaum, Philadelphia’s great movie theater magnate and one of its best-known philanthropists, began collecting works by Rodin in with the expressed intent of founding a museum to enrich the lives of his fellow citizens. He set about assembling a complete view of Rodin’s work, acquiring not only finished bronzes but also plaster studies as well as drawings, prints, letters, and books.
By the time of his death in ,Mastbaum had brought together the greatest Rodin collection outside of Paris. He had also commissioned the two great French neoclassical architects working in Philadelphia, Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber, to collaborate on a museum and garden, but did not live to Auguste Rodin see it completed. The museum, which The great French sculptor Auguste Rodin (‒ opened to the public in , houses ) brought monumental public sculpture into the sculptures, including twentieth century and established a new sculptural bronze casts of the freedom which continues to haunt our imaginations. artist’s greatest His stated aim was to be absolutely faithful to works: The Thinker, nature; he steadfastly refused to idealize his subjects, perhaps the most famous sculpture creating instead an unprecedented combination of in the world; The outer realism and psychological Burghers of Calais, insight. Rodin’s uncanny ability his most heroic and to penetrate the masks of the moving historical trib- men and women he portrayed, ute; Eternal Springtime, one of the most lyrical the bravura of his rough, works dealing with human love; light-catching modeling, and powerful monuments to leading his extraordinary use and reuse French intellectuals such as of the same similar figures, Apotheosis of Victor Hugo; and even parts of them and the culminating creation of his career, (torsos, limbs, and hands), The Gates of Hell, on have established his place among which the artist worked the greatest sculptors of all time. from until his death in . Right: Adam, Left: Mignon, -