List of sculpture parks

This is a list of well-known sculpture parks:

Contents 1 Australia 2 Austria 3 Belgium 4 Canada 5 Denmark 6 China 7 France 8 Germany 9 Hungary 10 India 11 Ireland 12 Japan 13 Laos 14 Lithuania 15 Mexico 16 The Netherlands 17 Norway 18 Russia 19 Singapore 20 Sweden 21 Switzerland 22 Thailand 23 United Kingdom 24 United States 25 See also 26 Notes 27 External links 28 Recommended overview books

Australia

• National Gallery of Australia has a sculpture park from the gallery to the banks of Lake Burley Griffin.^[1] One of the permanent exhibits in the park is a fern garden designed by Fiona Hall.^[2]
• Sculpture Park from the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Bulleen near Melbourne. Sculptures are permanently exhibited.
• McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, a public sculpture garden in Langwarrin near Melbourne.
• The lyons sculpture park.^[3] This is a 15-acre (61,000 m²) sculpture park in Lyons Western Victoria.

Austria

• Skulpturenpark Artpark is an urban sculpture garden in the city of Linz, Upper Austria. Sculptures are permanently exhibited.
• Österreichischer Skulpturenpark^[4] (Austrian Sculpture Park) is a sculpture park with outdoor sculptures of contemporary Austrian and international artists in Unterpremstätten, 7 km south of the Styrian capital Graz.

Belgium

• Beeldentuin Middelheim Museum in Antwerp

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.^[5]
• Odette Sculpture Park.
• Toronto Sculpture Garden
• The Jock Hildebrand Sculpture Park^[6] An outdoor Sculpture Garden in Westbank British Columbia Canada.

Denmark

• Tørskind Gravel Pit a former gravel pit converted to a sculpture park near Egtved, Vejle, Denmark.

China

• Changchun World Sculpture Park (长春世界雕塑公园) in Changchun City, Jilin Province.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}
• Guangzhou Sculpture Park. "China's largest thematic sculpture park."^[10]
• Guilin Yuzi Paradise (愚自乐园). "This large scale park hosts land art and contemporary sculpture featuring over 200 works by 140 artists from 47 different nations. On the grounds of Yuzi Paradise (or ‘Fool’s Paradise’) is also the Hotel of Modern Art."^[10]

More sculpture parks in China—listed on Birkbeck, University of London page^[17] You can add them in this section.

France

• Musée Rodin in Paris has an extensive sculpture garden featuring many of Auguste Rodin's most famous works.
• Tuileries Garden outside the Louvre, Paris, including works by Aristide Maillol.
• Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
• The towns of Cesson-Sévigné and Hédé near Rennes in Brittany have sculpture gardens dedicated to the work of Jean Boucher.
• Kerguehennec near Vannes in Brittany with contemporary sculptures.

Germany

• Skulpturengarten Damnatz.^[18] The sculpture garden is founded by Klaus and Monika Müller-KLug.
• Skulpturen Park Köln, located in Cologne, Germany. The park features contemporary sculptures (1997 – 2009).

Hungary

• Szoborpark, the statue park in the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, which houses the statues from communist times which are "no longer required"

India

• Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh.

Ireland

• Sculpture in the Parklands, Lough Boora, Co. Offaly.
• Victoria's Way, Roundwood.^[19]

Japan

• Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Laos

• Bunleua Sulilat's Buddha Park

Lithuania

• Grūtas Park (aka Stalin's World), a collection of monumental Soviet-era statues and other ideological relics, about 130 km southeast of Vilnius
• Europos Parkas near Vilnius
• Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Beekeeping in northeastern Lithuania
• Hill of Witches near the Baltic Sea
• The Klaipėda Sculpture park. The Sculpture park was created on the site of the former old cemetery. In 1975 Klaipėda executive committee decided to establish a Sculpture park on the cemetery site. The gravestones, fences were removed and some of them are now on display in the Blacksmith's Museum. From 1977 to 1991 the symposiums of sculptors in Smiltynė were arranged. The sculptures created during these symposiums were placed in the Sculpture park. Currently this 10-hectare park contains 117 varied works of art by 61 sculptors. In 2004 the monument in honour of Klaipėda patron J. L. Wiener (1795–1862) was restored. J. L. Wiener was a German Jewish trader. He is a historical and prominent personality of Klaipėda region, great philanthropist who his whole life paid a lot of attention and sacrifice to the community of Klaipėda city. On the eastern part of the park stands the monument to volunteers perished in fights for Klaipėda annexation to Lithuania in 1923. It was built in 1925 according to the project of well-known Klaipėda artist and public man Ad. Brakas. For the monument᾿s erection was used the granitic Prussia-Russia borderline column. On the northern part of the park near S. Daukantas street stands the monument to Soviet soldiers who fell in World War II.

Mexico

• Calle Obregon Boulevard Park in Colonia Roma in Mexico City in Calle Obregon in Mexico City

The Netherlands

• Beeldenpark van het Kröller-Müller Museum is the sculpture park of the Kröller-Müller Museum situated in Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands. It is one of the finest examples of a sculpture park in Europe.

Norway

• Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway.

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.

Singapore

• Sengkang Sculpture Park.

Sweden

• Hällefors Sculpture Park, Hällefors
• Konst på Hög (Art on a Hill), Kumla
• Ladonia, illegal sculpture park
• Millesgården Museum, Stockholm
• Umedalen Sculpture Park, Umeå
• Uttersberg, Skinnskatteberg
• Västertorp Sculpture Park, Stockholm
• Åkerby Sculpture Park, Nora

Switzerland

• Sculpture at Schoenthal, near Basel

Thailand

• Bunleua Sulilat's Sala Keoku

United Kingdom

• Artparks Sculpture Park, in Guernsey and elsewhere in the UK.
• 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.
• Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, England.
• Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. While not a sculpture park as such, the owners of Chatsworth, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, have collected and commissioned sculpture to be permanently sited on the estate. These include works by Barry Flanagan, Elizabeth Frink, and William Turnbull in the garden, and commissions by artists Tim Harrisson, David Nash, Allen Jones, Nigel Ross and Alison Crowther in the 1000 acre park designed by Capability Brown.Since 2006 Chatsworth has hosted 'Beyond Limits', a modern and contemporary sculpture exhibition in the gardens, in conjunction with Sotheby's auction house. This landmark selling exhibition takes place during the months of September and October, annually.
• 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.
• Grizedale Forest sculpture trail.
• 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 (48 km) footpath stretching from Salford Quays through Bury into Rossendale and up to the Pennines above Bacup.^[20]
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, England.

• Tout Quarry Sculpture Park - the first Sculpture Park in a quarry in the UK Portland,Dorset. Started in 1983 by the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust. Includes the work 'Still Falling' by Antony Gormley. Tout Quarry is also an international venue for a yearly programme of stone carving and sculpture courses that teach skills in stone carving direct carving, lettercutting, relief carving and architectural detail. Tout Quarry is also a creative and educational resource for visitors, schools, colleges and universities who come to learn about stone through the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust. www.learningstone.org

United States

Alabama

• Charles W. Ireland Sculpture Garden at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham
• USA Sculpture Park, Mobile

Arizona

• Sedona Arts Center Sculpture Garden, Sedona
• Tempe Arts Center and Sculpture Park, Tempe
• Alene Dunlop Smith Garden, Tucson

Arkansas

• Ozarks Woodland Sculpture Garden, Huntsville

California

• Wildwood Farm Sculpture Garden, Kenwood
• Robert Gumbiner Sculpture and Events Garden, Long Beach
• Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles
• Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden-,^[21] UCLA, Los Angeles
• Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden, Pasadena
• Roseville Sculpture Park, Roseville
• May S. Marcy Sculpture Court and Garden, San Diego
• The Mary and Harry Blanchard Sculpture Garden, Santa Cruz
• Outdoor Art at Stanford University, Stanford
• The New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford, Stanford
• Desert Christ Park, Yucca Valley
• Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside

Colorado

• Leaning Tree Museum and Sculpture Garden, Boulder
• Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Sculpture Courtyard and Sculpture Garden, Colorado Springs
• Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood
• The Benson Park Sculpture Garden, Loveland

Connecticut

• Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
• Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
• Kouros Gallery Sculpture Center, Ridgefield

Delaware

• The Copeland Sculpture Garden, Wilmington

District of Columbia

• National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington
• 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 link
• It’s Sculpture, Washington
• Statues of the Liberators, Washington

Florida

• Sculpture Key West, Key West
• Polk Museum of Art Sculpture Garden, Lakeland
• Martin Z. Marguiles Sculpture Park, Miami
• The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Inc., West Palm Beach
• Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Winter Park, Florida, USA link
• Crealdé School of Art Sculpture Garden, Winter Park

Illinois

• Barrington Library Sculpture Garden, Barrington
• Museum Of Science and Industry Front Lawn, Chicago
• Chicago Art Institute, Chicago
• Wood Street Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Chicago
• Navy Pier Walk, Chicago
• Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Sculpture Garden, Chicago
• Oakton Sculpture Park, Des Plaines
• Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon
• Farnsworth House, Plano
• Chicago Athenaeum's International Sculpture Park, Schaumburg
• Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, Skokie
• Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, University Park
• Wandell Sculpture Garden, Urbana

Indiana

• Indianapolis Art Center ARTSPARK, Indianapolis

Iowa

• Iowa State University Collection, Ames
• Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
• John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Des Moines

Kansas

• Johnson Community College Sculpture Collection, Overland Park
• Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Wichita

Louisiana

• Chauvin Sculpture Garden, Chauvin
• The Neill Corporation Sculpture Gardens, Hammond
• Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans

Maryland

• Sculpture at Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis
• Bufano Sculpture Garden, Baltimore
• Baltimore Museum of Art Sculpture Garden, Baltimore
• Janet and Allen Wurtzburger and Ryda and Robert H. Levi Sculpture Gardens, Baltimore
• Annmarie Garden, Dowell
• Strathmore Sculpture Garden, North Bethesda

Massachusetts

• Arts on the Point, Boston
• The Forest Hills Trust, Boston
• The List Visual Arts Center (MIT Campus), Cambridge
• Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge
• DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA link
• Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park, Newburyport
• Mass MOCA, North Adams
• Butler Sculpture Park, Sheffield
• Dr. Seuss Memorial is a sculpture garden located at The Quadrangle in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, honoring the American children's author Dr. Seuss link

Michigan

• Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills
• Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park a 125-acre (0.51 km²) botanical garden and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan in Kent County, USA, commonly referred to as Meijer Gardens link
• Western Michigan University Sculpture Tour Program, Kalamazoo
• Lakenenland Sculpture Park, Marquette
• Northern Michigan University Sculpture Walk, Marquette
• Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph
• Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville

Minnesota

• Minneapolis Sculpture Garden an 11 acre (45,000 m²) park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, located near the Walker Art Center link
• General Mills Art Collection Sculpture Program, Minneapolis
• Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer
• North High Bridge Sculpture Garden & Park, St. Paul
• Caponi Art Park and Learning Center a 60-acre (240,000 m²) wooded sculpture garden and performance space in Eagan

Missouri

• Kansas City Sculpture Park, Kansas City
• Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City
• Henry Lay Sculpture Park, Louisiana
• Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia
• Blanke Sculpture Terrace, St. Louis
• Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
• Serra Sculpture Park, St. Louis

Nebraska

• Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden at UNL, Lincoln
• Prairie Peace Park, Lincoln
• Carhenge near Alliance

Nevada

• Goldwell Open Air Museum, Amaragosa Valley
• Michael Hizer's Double Negative, Overton
• Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

New Hampshire

• Andres Institute of Art Sculpture Park, Brookline

New Jersey

• Clifton Municipal Sculpture Park, Clifton
• Quietude Garden Gallery, East Brunswick
• Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, a 35-acre (140,000 m²) garden and museum founded by J. Seward Johnson, Jr., grandson of Johnson & Johnson founder Robert Wood Johnson link
• Newark Museum Sculpture Garden, Newark
• Burlington County College Sculpture Park, Pemberton
• John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection, Princeton
• Ironstone Sculpture Garden, Woodstown

New Mexico

• Phil & Olga Eaton Sculpture Garden, Albuquerque
• Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden, Albuquerque
• Lightning Field, Corrales
• El Ancon Sculpture Park, Ribera
• Lumina Sculpture Garden, Taos
• Shidoni Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Tesuque

New York

• Art Omi, Ghent
• Bradford Graves Sculpture Park, Kerhonkson, New YorkY^[22]
• Griffis Sculpture Park, Ashford Hollow
• Sculpture Park At Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
• Albright-Knox Museum of Art, Buffalo
• Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia
• LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton
• The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent
• Hofstra University Sculpture Garden, Hempstead
• The C Lyon Sculpture Garden, Horseheads
• The Solo Sculpture Garden by The C Lyon, Horseheads
• Rocky Point Park and Preserve, Long Island
• PS-1 Contemporary Art Center/NYMMA, Long Island City
• Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City
• Sculpture Center, Long Island City
• Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Long Island City
• Louise Nevelson Plaza, Manhattan
• 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 link
• Studio Museum in Harlem Sculpture Garden, New York
• The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
• MoMA Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture GardenE, New York
• A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York
• Top Gallant, New York
• The Cloisters, New York
• Central Park Conservancy Sculpture Tour, New York
• DIA Foundation, New York
• Battery Park City, Outdoor Sculptures, New York
• Iris & Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, New York
• Kykuit Gardens, North Tarrytown
• The Plattsburgh Sculpture Park at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh
• Buckhorn, Pound Ridge
• Donald Kendall Sculpture Garden, Purchase
• Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo Hdqs., Purchase
• Neuberger Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden, Purchase
• Neuberger Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden, Purchase
• Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor
• Nassau County Museum of Art and Sculpture, Roslyn Harbor
• Salem Art Works (SAW), Salem
• OPUS 40, Saugerties
• Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
• Sculpture Space, Utica
• Pacem in Terris, Warwick
• Adirondack - Sacandaga River Sculpture Park, Wells

North Carolina

• Chapel Hill Public Arts Program, Chapel Hill
• North Carolina Museum of Art Park, Raleigh
• Winston-Salem State Sculpture Garden, Winston-Salem

Ohio

• Outdoor Sculpture in the University of Cincinnati Fine Arts Collection, Cincinnati
• Rosenthal Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
• Mac's Farm and Sculpture Center, Cinti
• The Sculpture Center, Cleveland
• Columbus Museum of Art Sculpture Park, Columbus
• Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton
• Rio Grande Sculpture Park, Rio Grande
• Georgia and David K. Welles Sculpture Garden, Toledo

Oklahoma

• Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa

Oregon

• Evan H. Roberts Sculpture Mall, Portland

Pennsylvania

• Phillip and Muriel Berman Sculpture Park, Allentown
• Rhoneymeade Arboretum and Sculpture Garden, Centre Hall
• Kentuck Knob, Chalk Hill
• Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus
• Patricia D. Pfundt Sculpture Garden, Doylestown
• Abington Art Center Sculpture Garden, Jenkintown
• James Wolf Sculpture Trail, Johnstown
• Madeline K. Butcher Sculpture Garden and the Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia
• Fairmount Park / International Sculpture Garden, Philadelphia
• Drexel University, Philadelphia
• Pittston Susquehanna River Sculpture Park, Pittston

Puerto Rico

• Sculpture Garden of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan

South Carolina

• Jackson Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Aiken
• The South Carolina Botanical Garden and Sculpture Garden, Clemson
• Davidson Sculpture Garden, Davidson
• Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA link

South Dakota

• Presidents Park Sculpture Garden, Lead
• Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose

Tennessee

• River Gallery Sculpture Garden, Chattanooga
• Hunter Museum of American Art Sculpture Garden, Chattanooga
• Carell Woodland Sculpture Trail (Cheekwood), Nashville

Texas

• Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo
• Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin
• Huntington Sculpture Foundation, Coupland
• Meadows Museum Sculpture Plaza, Dallas
• 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 link
• The Meadows Museum and Sculpture Court, Dallas
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas
• NorthPark Center, Dallas
• The Rachofsky House, Dallas
• Texas Sculpture Garden, Frisco
• Rothko Chapel & Sculpture Reflection Pool, Houston
• James Turrell's Skyspace, Houston
• Buffalo Bayou Artpark, Houston
• Blossom Street Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Houston
• The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, Houston
• The Menil Collection, Houston
• Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston
• The Benini Foundation and Sculpture Ranch, Johnson City
• Liberty Hill International Sculpture Park, Liberty Hills
• Chinati Foundatioin, Marfa
• McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
• San Antonio Museum of Art Sculpture Garden, San Antonio

Utah

• Gilgal Sculpture Garden by Thomas Childs, in Salt Lake City
• Metaphor: The Tree of Utah by Karl Momen, near Wendover
• Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson, near Brigham (in the Great Salt Lake)

Vermont

• Spirit of Place, Burlington
• Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier
• North Bennington Art Park, North Bennington
• West Branch Gallery and Sculpture park, Stowe
• Marble Street Sculpture Park, West Rutland
• National Memorial Park, Falls Church

Virginia

• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
• Peter F. De Vaux, Verona

Washington

• Western Washington University Campus Sculpture, Bellingham
• Westcott Bay Sculpture Park, Friday Harbor
• Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park, Olympia (website)
• Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle
• Spokane Sculpture Walk, Spokane
• Whitman College Campus Sculpture, Walla Walla

Wisconsin

• Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee
• Wisconsin Concrete Park, Phillips
• Woodlot Outdoor Sculpture Gallery, Sheboygan
• Margaret Woodson Fischer Sculpture Gallery, Wausau
• Stevens Point Sculpture Park, Stevens Point

See also

• Ice sculpture

Notes

External links

• Sculpture Destinations Directory, International Sculpture Center
• International Directory of Sculpture Parks, compiled by the sculptor Benbow Bullock
• Sculpture parks in Europe, geocoded on a clickable map (Welt-der-Form, in German)
• Sculptures in Public Space (zuzuku, in German)
• Skulpturenpark Artpark in German

Recommended overview books

• Jane McCarthy, Laurily K. Epstein: A Guide to the Sculpture Parks and Gardens of America. Kesend Publishing Ltd, September 1996
• Jimena Blazquez Abascal, Raul Rispa, Valeria Varas: Sculpture Parks in Europe. A Guide to Art and Nature. Birkhäuser, 1st ed., August 2006