Philadelphia - Rodin Museum

The Rodin Museum is dedicated to exhibiting the art and life of French sculptor, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The museum, which opened to the public in 1929, houses 124 sculptures, including bronze casts of the artist's greatest works. Included are The Thinker, perhaps the most famous sculpture in the world; The Burghers of Calais; Eternal Springtime; several monuments to leading French intellectuals such as Apotheosis of Victor Hugo; and the culminating creation of Rodin's career, The Gates of Hell, on which the artist worked from 1880 until his death in 1917.

The Rodin Museum (22nd Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway), opened in 1929, contains the largest collection of Rodin's work outside France, with 124 pieces of sculpture. Philadelphia cinema magnate Jules E. Mastbaum assembled the collection in the 1920s.