LIST OF SCULPTURE PARKS

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Summer Garden in St. Petersburg (1716-25) was one of the earliest sculpture parks.

Statue of Marx and Engels from the Szoborpark, a themed sculpture park.

Sphere with Inner Form, at the Barbara Hepworth Museum.

This is a list of well-known sculpture parks:

Contents
Australia
Canada
Denmark
France
Hungary
India
Japan
Lithuania
Norway
Russia
Singapore
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Notes

Australia



National Gallery of Australia has a scuplture park from the gallery to the banks of Lake Burley Griffin. Art in Landscape, by Harijs Piekains One of the permanent exhibits in the park is a fern garden designed by Fiona Hall Fiona Hall's fern garden, by Harijs Piekains

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.Included because architecture may also be viewed as sculpture in its widest sense

Odette Sculpture Park.

Toronto Sculpture Garden

Denmark



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

France



Musée Rodin in Paris has an extensive sculpture garden featuring many of Auguste Rodin's most famous works.

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.

Japan



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

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

Norway



Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway.

Russia



Summer Garden () 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



★ Millesgården

★ Hällefors skulpturpark (Hällefors)

★ Konst på Hög (Kumla)

★ Umedalens skulpturpark (Umeå)

★ Uttersberg (Skinnskatteberg)

★ Åkerby Skulpturpark (Nora)

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.

ArtParKs International, in Guernsey and elsewhere in the UK.

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.[1]

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, England.

Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, England.

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.

Notes



1. The Irwell Sculpture Trail is not strictly a park, since it is defined by a trail



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