The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia

LIBERTY BELLE on the Rodin Museum

“While Son of Swoop is out groping married women and lusting after Parkway statues, I tend to enjoy sculpture at a somewhat higher level, and that is why I absolutely love the Rodin Museum. Auguste Rodin, a French artist of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, was the father of modern sculpture and one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived. Almost everyone is familiar with his most famous work, ‘The Thinker’. The Rodin Museum houses the largest Rodin collection outside of Paris – not only 100+ finished sculptures, but plaster studies, drawings, prints, letters and books. The Museum is beautiful, as are the tranquil gardens surrounding it. Standing by the courtyard’s reflecting pool; I can hardly believe I am just a few blocks from Center City.”