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Rodin Museum Gardens and Landscape Blooms After Three-Year Rejuvenation

PHILADELPHIA, PA .- A gloriously rejuvenated garden landscape surrounding the Rodin Museum was unveiled today by the Philadelphia Museum of Art , which administers the Rodin Museum and Gardens; the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, completing a three-year collaboration that revitalizes the site’s extraordinary harmony of art and nature.

Leaders of the city’s cultural and philanthropic communities celebrated the rebirth of the Rodin Museum and Gardens’ grounds and toured the courtyard and exterior gardens, which now enhance the entire block between 21st and 22nd Streets on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Bastille Day was chosen as the date on which to celebrate in order to honor French sculptor Auguste Rodin as well as Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber, the original designers of the museum building, landscape, and Parkway.

“Today we mark a major milestone in our work to renew the Parkway as a grand, green boulevard of arts and culture and as an international destination,” said Timothy Rub, The George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “This burnishing of one of our city’s cultural jewels is the result of a remarkable partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, the landscape design firm OLIN, and generous public and private funders. Today’s events honor the original vision for the gardens surrounding the Rodin Museum and provide a glimpse of further changes ahead that will highlight the collection and reveal the intended harmony of monumental public sculpture with these sensitively restored green spaces.”

The Rodin Museum and Gardens project, which includes the restoration of the Meudon Gate entrance, is part of a $20.9 million investment to revitalize the Parkway funded by the City of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the William Penn Foundation. A $1.4 million comprehensive restoration of the Rodin Museum’s exterior facade, launched in 2010, was generously funded by grants from the William B. Dietrich Foundation and the City of Philadelphia.

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The gardens of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia have reopened after three years of renovation. They have been rejuvenated and create a remarkable sense of harmony between nature and the French artist’s sculptures.

The project amounted to $20.9 million and the renovation work was subsidised by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as well as the William Penn Foundation. The Philadelphia Museum of Art runs the Rodin Museum and Gardens and, with the support of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, was able to spruce up this extraordinary garden.

The Rodin Museum and Gardens were entirely designed by the architects Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber, including the building, landscape and promenade. The renovation of the gardens is important for the institution as it could elevate the museum to an international art centre located in prestigious natural surroundings. In 2010, the façade of the museum was restored at the cost of $1.4 million, covered by the William B. Dietrich Foundation and the city of Philadelphia.

The restoration of the gardens will highlight the symmetry of the gardens “à la française”. From today, the public will be able to discover Rodin’s sculptures exhibited at the heart of this luxuriant natural area.

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