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Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, PA

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Rodin Museum

Rodin Museum is a museum in Philadelphia, PA, part of the Philadelphia guide. Cost: under $25.

2151 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy · Philadelphia, PA

Why you should go…

The Rodin Museum holds one of the largest public collections of Auguste Rodin's work outside Paris, with bronzes, plasters, marbles and terracottas. The Thinker greets you at the entrance to the Dorrance H. Hamilton Garden, a Parisian-style garden, and The Gates of Hell, a 5.5-meter bronze doorway, is also on view. Movie theater magnate Jules Mastbaum assembled the collection, and the museum opened in 1929 in a building by Paul Cret and Jacques Greber. The Philadelphia Museum of Art runs it today.

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