List of sculpture parks
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This is a list of well-known sculpture parks:
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[edit] Canada
- Canadian Centre for Architecture is an architecture museum and research centre located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The architect Phyllis Lambert is the founder and director.[1]
[edit] Denmark
- Tørskind Gravel Pit a former gravel pit converted to a sculpture park near Egtved, Vejle, Denmark.
[edit] Hungary
- Szoborpark, the statue park in the outskirts of Budapest,Hungary, which houses the statues from communist times which are "no longer required".
[edit] Japan
- Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
[edit] Lithuania
- Grūtas Park is a sculpture garden of monumental Soviet-era statues and an exposition of other ideological relics founded by the entrepreneur (and former wrestler) Viliumas Malinauskas near Druskininkai, about 130 km southeast of Vilnius, Lithuania.[2]
[edit] Norway
[edit] Russia
- Summer Garden (Russian: Летний сад, Letniy Sad) occupies an island between the Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great.
[edit] Sweden
- Millesgården
- Hällefors skulpturpark (Hällefors)
- Konst på Hög (Kumla)
- Umedalens skulpturpark (Umeå)
- Uttersberg (Skinnskatteberg)
- Åkerby Skulpturpark (Nora)
[edit] United Kingdom
- Barbara Hepworth Museum, in St Ives, Cornwall, south-west England, preserves Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there.
- Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail in the Forest of Dean in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It links several different site-specific sculptures commissioned for the forest.
- Irwell Sculpture Trail is the largest public art scheme in the United Kingdom commissioning regional, national and international artists. It follows a well established 30 mile footpath stretching from Salford Quays through Bury into Rossendale and up to the Pennines above Bacup.[3]
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England.
[edit] United States
- Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Florida, USA.
- Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, USA.
- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA.
- Dr. Seuss Memorial is a sculpture garden located at The Quadrangle in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, honoring the American children's author Dr. Seuss.
- Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park a 125-acre botanical garden and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan in Kent County, USA, commonly referred to as Meijer Gardens.
- Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, a 35-acre garden and museum founded by J. Seward Johnson, Jr., grandson of Johnson & Johnson founder Robert Wood Johnson.
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden an art museum located in Washington, DC, USA, on the National Mall and designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Minneapolis Sculpture Garden an 11 acre (45,000 m²) park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, located near the Walker Art Center.
- Nasher Sculpture Center located at Flora Street in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA, opened in October 2003, funded by Raymond Nasher, and designed by architect Renzo Piano.
- Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, USA, is an open air museum which has extended the concept of a sculpture garden to become a sculpture landscape.
[edit] Notes
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