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Rodin Museum

Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 22nd Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

Looking Through the Gateway of the Rodin Museum
Photo: Robert J. Moran

The Museum was the gift of movie-theater magnate Jules Mastbaum and opened in 1929. It holds the largest collection of Rodin’s work outside of Paris.

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The best-known of Rodin's works, The Thinker (1880-1882), sits outside the museum in the entry courtyard.
The original entrance to the museum took visitors through a cast of The Gates of Hell, a massive 5.5m-high bronze doorway. These doors are no longer used.