Tours meet at the Rodin Museum.
Free members event.

Restored to its original splendor, join us as we explore this Museum’s remarkable ensemble of architecture, landscape, and sculpture.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.

 

Past Museum Director Fiske Kimball’s vision of placing art in relevant architectural interiors resulted in the Museum’s period rooms playing an integral role in the interpretation of art on display within them. Wander back in time through a 13th century French Cloister, a 16th century Hindu temple, an interior from Holland's Golden Age, and several 18th century English drawing rooms for an intimate experience illustrating the evolution of styles in painting, furniture, tapestries and porcelain throughout the ages.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Tours gather in Museum's West Entrance
Tickets may be purchased at the Admissions Ticket Desk, no advanced reservations are necessary. Please note that tours are weather dependant and will not take place in excessive heat or rain. Moderate walking is involved.

Join Park House Guides on a tour of the Fairmount Water Works, an engineering marvel of its time, which was described by Edgar Allan Poe as "wondrous to behold".

 

Location: Meet at the base of the East Entrance steps. The tour ends at the West Entrance.

Explore the life of artist Thomas Eakins (1844‒1916), who painted The Gross Clinic and lived in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood, by visiting some of the sites that influenced his life and work. This bike tour focuses on Center City Philadelphia and lasts approximately 1.5 hours.

Following the tour, Pay What You Wish for Museum admission to see Eakins’s works up close in the Museum’s American art galleries (111 and Provident National Bank Gallery 118).

This event is offered in partnership with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. Space is limited, and bikes and helmets are required. For more information and to register for the ride, visit www.eakinsride.eventbrite.com

 

Tours gather in Museum's West Entrance
Please note that tours are weather dependant and will not take place in excessive heat or rain. Moderate walking is involved.

Take a stroll around the Museum and into the new Anne d’Harnoncourt Memorial Sculpture Garden to explore some of its outdoor artwork and landscape views. This one-acre site hosts two gallery areas, which currently contain the stone sculptures of Isamu Noguchi. The plantings along the lawns and terraces contain trees, shrubs, and perennials that support local wildlife and bloom at various seasons.

 

Location: Great Stair Hall Balcony

Bring your own mat!

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Location: Van Pelt Auditorium

The May film series Celebrate Golf! honors all things golf-related through four amusing and quirky films. Visit gallery 280 before the films to see the Art of Golf exhibition, including works on loan from the National Galleries of Scotland.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission.

Adam Sandler stars in Happy Gilmore, raucous comedy about a diehard hockey player who turns the snobbish world of an upscale golf course into absolute mayhem. (Rated PG-13.)

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With Darielle Mason, The Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art.