List of sculpture parks

This is a list of sculpture parks, by country.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Australia

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

Austria

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

Belgium

• Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum (Beeldentuin Middelheim Museum) in Antwerp
• Brussels Park, Brussels
• Parc Astrid, Charleroi

Canada

• Canadian Centre for Architecture, museum and research centre in Montreal, Quebec. The architect Phyllis Lambert is the founder and director.^[5]
• Jean Drapeau Park outdoor sculptures in Montreal, Quebec.
• René Lévesque Park sculpture park in Montreal, Quebec.
• Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, Hornby Island, British Columbia
• Jock Hildebrand Sculpture Park,^[6] outdoor sculpture garden in Westbank, British Columbia
• Toronto Sculpture Garden
• Windsor Sculpture Park (formerly Odette Sculpture Park), Windsor, Ontario

China

• Changchun World Sculpture Park , Changchun City, Jilin Province^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}
• Guangzhou Sculpture Park, Guangzhou, "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.

Denmark

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

France

• The towns of Cesson-Sévigné and Hédé near Rennes in Brittany have sculpture gardens dedicated to the work of Jean Boucher.
• Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
• Kerguehennec near Vannes in Brittany with contemporary sculptures
• 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
• Parc de Sculptures Monumentales Engelbrecht in the gardens of the Château des Fougis (Thionne in Allier, Auvergne). Giant steel sculptures of the German artist Erich Engelbrecht.

Germany

• Skulpturen Park Köln in Cologne; features contemporary sculptures (1997–2009)
• Skulpturengarten Damnatz,^[18] founded by Klaus and Monika Müller-Klug
• Skulpturengarten Passentin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), established by Dorothee Raetsch

Hungary

• Memento Park (Szoborpark), statue park in the outskirts of Budapest, which houses the statues from Communist times which are "no longer required"

India

• Malampuzha Dam garden, Kerala
• Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh
• Ramoji Film City, near Hyderabad, India

Ireland

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

Italy

• Chianti Sculpture Park, Tuscany, about 7 miles (11 km) north of Siena. Over a wooded area of 32 acres (13 ha), the Parco sculture del Chianti is a collection of site-specific sculptures and installations created by artists from over 25 countries.^[20][21]
• Parco della scultura di Castelbuono di Bevagna ^[22]
• Collezione Gori - Fattoria di Celle, Santomato di Pistoia^[23]
• Parco Scultura La Palomba, Matera ^[24]

Japan

• Benesse House Museum, Naoshima Island^[25]
• Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture

Laos

• Bunleua Sulilat's Buddha Park

Lithuania

• Europos Parkas near Vilnius
• Grūtas Park (aka Stalin's World), a collection of monumental Soviet-era statues and other ideological relics, about 130 km southeast of Vilnius
• Hill of Witches, Juodkrantė, near the Baltic Sea
• Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Beekeeping in northeastern Lithuania

Mexico

• Calle Obregon Boulevard Park in Colonia Roma, Mexico City

The Netherlands

• Beeldenpark van het Kröller-Müller Museum, the sculpture park of the Kröller-Müller Museum situated in Hoge Veluwe National Park. It is one of the finest examples of a sculpture park in Europe, with in their collection art of Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Richard Serra, Jean Dubuffet, Mark di Suvero, Lucio Fontana, Fritz Wotruba and Claes Oldenburg.

New Zealand

• Gibbs Farm, of Alan Gibbs

Norway

• Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo
• Peer Gynt Sculpture Park, Oslo
• Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo

Russia

• The Summer Garden (Russian: Летний сад, Letniy Sad) occupies an island between the Fontanka River, Moyka River, and the Swan Canal in Saint Petersburg, and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great.

Singapore

• Sengkang Sculpture Park

South Africa

• Sculpture Garden of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town^[26]

Spain

• Meatzalde Goikoa Parke], La Arboleda, Bizkaia. The first exhibition open space dedicated to the sculpture in the Basque Country. Near the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao.

Sweden

• Ladonia, illegal sculpture park
• Millesgården Museum, Stockholm
• Wanas Sculpture Park

Switzerland

• Sculpture at Schoenthal, near Basel
• Bruno Weber Park in Dietikon and Spreitenbach

Taiwan

• Cihu Sculpture Memorial Park (慈湖紀念雕塑公園), near Daxi District, Taoyuan City featuring statues of Chiang Kai-shek removed from public spaces.^[27]

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^[28]
• Broomhill Sculpture Gardens, in Muddiford, Barnstaple, North Devon, south-west England. A collection of over 300 sculptures sited in 15 acres of woodland garden and river meadow.
• Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, England^[29]
• 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, Elisabeth Frink, and William Turnbull in the garden, and commissions by artists Tim Harrisson, David Nash, Allen Jones, Nigel Ross and Alison Crowther in the 1,000-acre (400 ha) 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; links several different site-specific sculptures commissioned for the forest
• Grizedale Forest sculpture trail
• Irwell Sculpture Trail, 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.^[30]
• Tout Quarry Sculpture Park, Isle of Portland, Dorset, the first sculpture park in a quarry in the UK. Started in 1983 by the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust. Includes the work 'Still Falling' by Antony Gormley. Tout Quarry is an international venue for a yearly programme of stone carving and sculpture courses that teach skills in 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.
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, England

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

• Big Rock Sculpture Park, North Little Rock
• Ozarks Woodland Sculpture Garden, Huntsville

California

• (The Mary and Harry) Blanchard Sculpture Garden, Santa Cruz
• Desert Christ Park, Yucca Valley
• (Robert) Gumbiner Sculpture and Events Garden, Long Beach
• (May S.) Marcy Sculpture Court and Garden, San Diego
• Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden,^[31] UCLA, Los Angeles
• New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford, Stanford
• Outdoor Art at Stanford University, Stanford
• Queen Califia's Magical Circle, Escondido
• Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden, Pasadena
• Roseville Sculpture Park, Roseville
• Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside
• (Fran and Ray) Stark Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles
• Wildwood Farm Sculpture Garden Kenwood

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
• Benson Park Sculpture Garden, Loveland

Connecticut

• Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
• Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
• Kouros Gallery Sculpture Center, Ridgefield
• Edward Tufte's Hogpen Hill Farms, Woodbury

Delaware

• Copeland Sculpture Garden, Wilmington

District of Columbia

• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, on the National Mall and designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution.
• It's Sculpture, Washington
• National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, 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
• Crealdé School of Art Sculpture Garden, Winter Park

Illinois

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

Kentucky

• Josephine Sculpture Park, Frankfort

Louisiana

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

Maryland

• Sculpture at Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis
• Baltimore Museum of Art Sculpture Garden, Baltimore
• Bufano 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
• Forest Hills Trust, Boston
• Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge
• List Visual Arts Center (MIT campus), Cambridge
• DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln
• Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park, Newburyport
• Mass MOCA, North Adams
• Butler Sculpture Park, Sheffield
• Dr. Seuss Memorial, sculpture garden located at The Quadrangle in Springfield

Michigan

• Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills
• City of Brighton Walking Sculpture Garden, Brighton
• Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Township in Kent County, a 125-acre (0.51 km²) botanical garden and outdoor sculpture park
• 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

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

Missouri

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

Montana

• Bozeman Sculpture Park, Bozeman

Nebraska

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

Nevada

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

New Hampshire

• Andres Institute of Art, Brookline

New Jersey

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

New Mexico

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

New York

• Griffis Sculpture Park, Ashford Hollow
• Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY

• Sculpture Park at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
• Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
• Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia
• LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton
• Art Omi, Ghent
• 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
• Bradford Graves Sculpture Park, Kerhonkson
• PS-1 Contemporary Art Center/NYMMA, Long Island City
• Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Long Island City
• Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City
• Sculpture Center, Long Island City
• Battery Park City Outdoor Sculptures, Manhattan
• Central Park Conservancy Sculpture Tour, Manhattan
• The Cloisters, Manhattan
• DIA Foundation, Manhattan
• Iris & Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Manhattan
• Louise Nevelson Plaza, Manhattan
• MoMA Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, Manhattan
• Morgan Library & Museum, Manhattan
• Museum of Jewish Heritage Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Manhattan
• Studio Museum in Harlem Sculpture Garden, Manhattan
• Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, a "sculpture landscape"
• Kykuit Gardens, North Tarrytown
• André Emmerich Top Gallant Farm, Pawling
• Plattsburgh Sculpture Park at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh
• Buckhorn, Pound Ridge
• Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo Hq., Purchase
• Neuberger Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden, Purchase
• Rocky Point Park and Preserve, Rocky Point
• 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
• Davidson Sculpture Garden, Davidson
• 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
• 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, Chalkhill
• Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus
• Patricia D. Pfundt Sculpture Garden, Doylestown
• Abington Art Center Sculpture Garden, Jenkintown
• James Wolf Sculpture Trail, Johnstown
• Drexel University, Philadelphia
• Fairmount Park / International Sculpture Garden, Philadelphia
• Madeline K. Butcher Sculpture Garden and the Morris Arboretum, 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
• South Carolina Botanical Garden and Sculpture Garden, Clemson
• Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet

South Dakota

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

Tennessee

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

Texas

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

Utah

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

Vermont

• Spirit of Place, Huntington
• Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier
• North Bennington Art Park, North Bennington
• West Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park, Stowe
• Marble Street Sculpture Park, West Rutland
• West Rutland Art Park, West Rutland

Virginia

• National Memorial Park, Falls Church
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
• Peter F. De Vaux, Verona

Washington

• Earth Sanctuary Sculpture Garden, Whidbey Island
• Western Washington University Campus Sculpture, Bellingham
• SJI Sculpture Park, Friday Harbor
• Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park, Olympia
• Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle
• Spokane Sculpture Walk, Spokane
• Whitman College Campus Sculpture, Walla Walla

Wisconsin

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

See also

• Ice sculpture
• Outline of sculpture
• Sculpture garden
• Sculpture trail
• Sensory garden

References

Notes

Further reading

• Blázquez Abascal, Jimena; Valeria Varas; and Raúl Rispa. (2006). Sculpture Parks in Europe: A Guide to Art and Nature. Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser Architecture. ISBN 978-3764376253
• Cigola, Francesca. (2013). Art Parks: A Tour of America's Sculpture Parks and Gardens. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1616891299
• Harper, Glenn; and Twylene Moyer, eds. (2008). Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks. Hamilton, NJ: ISC Press; and Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0295988610
• McCarthy, Jane; and Laurily Keir Epstein. (1996). A Guide to the Sculpture Parks and Gardens of America. New York: Michael Kesend. ISBN 978-0935576511

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