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Rodin Museum

Address: 22nd St. and Benjamin Franklin Pkwy., Fairmount, Philadelphia, PA | Map It
Phone: 215/763-8100
www.rodinmuseum.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Benjamin Franklin Parkway

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Fodor's Review:

This jewel of a museum holds the best collection outside France of the work of sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). You'll pass through Rodin's Gates of Hell—a 21-foot-high sculpture with more than 100 human and animal figures—into an exhibition hall where the sculptor's masterworks are made even more striking by the use of light and shadow. Here are The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and Eternal Springtime. A small room is devoted to one of Rodin's most famous sitters, the French novelist Balzac. Photographs by Edward Steichen showing Rodin at work round out the collection. The museum occupies a 20th-century building designed by French architects Jacques Greber and Paul Cret.

Cost: $3
Open: Tues.-Sun. 10-5

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Reviewed by bachslunch from US on 10/20/08
A modest sized museum dedicated to the sculpture of Rodin. Excellent examples of this artist's work here. Well worth seeing.