List of sculpture parks

This is a list of sculpture parks by country.

Africa edit

Morocco edit

  • Anima Garden, 27 km (17 mi) from Marrakech just off the Ourika road

South Africa edit

Zimbabwe edit

Asia edit

China edit

  • Changchun World Sculpture Park, Changchun City, Jilin Province[2][3][4]
  • Guangzhou Sculpture Park, Guangzhou, "China's largest thematic sculpture park"[5]
  • 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."[5]
  • Wuhu Sculpture Park, Wuhu City, Anhui Province, China
  • Zobon City Sculpture Garden, Shanghai[6]
More sculpture parks in China—listed on Birkbeck, University of London page[7] You can add them in this section.

India edit

 
Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India

Japan edit

Laos edit

Philippines edit

Singapore edit

 
"Waves", Sengkang Sculpture Park, Singapore

South Korea edit

Taiwan edit

Thailand edit

 
Bunleua Sulilat's Sala Keoku, Nong Khai, Thailand

Vietnam edit

  • Artika Sculpture Park
  • Ta Phin, Sa Pa, Lao Cai, Viet Nam

Europe edit

Austria edit

 
The urban Sculpture garden Artpark in Linz, Austria, 2008

Belgium edit

Cyprus edit

  • Museum of Underwater Sculpture - at Ayia Napa - underwater museum off the coast of Cypress

Denmark edit

  • Copenhagen Naturlagepladsen Himmelhoj

France edit

 
Storming of the Bastille, by Jean Boucher in Cesson-Sévigné

Germany edit

 
Klaus Müller-Klug, Quader mit Lichthof Granit, 2,50 m, Skulpturengarten Damnatz
 
Das Paar, at the Skulpturengarten Damnatz
 
Tony Cragg: Dancing Column in Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden

Hungary edit

 
Statue of Marx and Engels from the Szoborpark, a themed sculpture park
  • Memento Park (Szoborpark), statue park in the outskirts of Budapest, which houses the statues from Communist times which are "no longer required"

Ireland edit

 
Statue of Ganesha at Victoria's Way

Italy edit

  • Parco della scultura di Castelbuono di Bevagna[15]
  • Parco Scultura La Palomba, Matera[16]

Lithuania edit

Netherlands edit

 
Entrance to the Kröller-Müller Museum

Norway edit

 
The monolith, sculptures by Gustav Vigeland (part of Vigeland Sculpture Park)

Russia edit

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

Slovenia edit

  • Forma Viva Sculpture Park, Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki
  • Forma viva Sculpture Park, Seča pri Portorožu

Spain edit

 
La Arboleda, Zona Minera. Bizkaia - Basque Country
  • 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.
  • Parcart, 17244 Cassà de la Selva, Province of Girona. This sculpture park was founded by Jaume Roser in 2003. It has more than 300 sculptures by different artists.

Sweden edit

Switzerland edit

United Kingdom edit

 
Sphere with Inner Form at the Barbara Hepworth Museum in Trewyn Garden, St Ives, Cornwall, with Two Forms (Divided Circle) behind

North America edit

Canada edit

Mexico edit

United States edit

Alabama edit

Arizona edit

  • (Jack) Jamesen Memorial Sculpture Park, Sedona, Arizona[27]
  • Sedona Arts Center Sculpture Garden, Sedona
  • (Alene Dunlop) Smith Garden, Tucson
  • Tempe Arts Center and Sculpture Park, Tempe

Arkansas edit

California edit

Colorado edit

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

Connecticut edit

Delaware edit

District of Columbia edit

Florida edit

Georgia edit

Hawaii edit

Illinois edit

Indiana edit

Iowa edit

Kansas edit

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

Kentucky edit

Louisiana edit

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

Maryland edit

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

Massachusetts edit

 
Trojan Piggybank by Aristotle Georgiades and Gail Simpson, 2004, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Michigan edit

Minnesota edit

Mississippi edit

Missouri edit

Montana edit

Nebraska edit

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

Nevada edit

New Hampshire edit

New Jersey edit

New Mexico edit

New York edit

North Carolina edit

Ohio edit

Oklahoma edit

Oregon edit

  • Evan H. Roberts Sculpture Mall, Portland

Pennsylvania edit

Puerto Rico edit

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

South Carolina edit

South Dakota edit

 
Egyptian Bull's Head, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Tennessee edit

  •  
    Peter Lundberg's "Anchors" is one of 40+ colossal sculptures featured at Sculpture Fields at Montague Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
    Cheekwood - Carell Sculpture Trail, Nashville
  • Hunter Museum of American Art, Sculpture Garden, Chattanooga
  • (Charles) Krutch Park, Knoxville
  • Sculpture Fields at Montague Park, Chattanooga
  • River Gallery Sculpture Garden, Chattanooga

Texas edit

 
Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas
 
The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden in Houston, TX

Utah edit

 
Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson, 1970, near Brigham City, Utah

Vermont edit

Virginia edit

Washington edit

 
Eagle, by Alexander Calder, 1971, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle

Wisconsin edit

Oceania edit

Australia edit

 
Torus - Hidden and revealed, Adrian Page, 2003, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
  • Lyons Sculpture Park,[35] 15-acre (61,000 m2) sculpture park in Lyons, western Victoria

New Zealand edit

South America edit

Brazil edit

 
Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil

Colombia edit

 
Head, Botero Plaza, Medellín, Colombia

See also edit

References edit

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  14. ^ "Fattoria di Celle - Collezione Gori". www.goricoll.it. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  15. ^ "Parco della Scultura di Castelbuono di Bevagna, un museo a cielo aperto - Pro Loco Cantalupo Castelbuono Bevagna / Perugia / Umbria". www.prolococantalupocastelbuono.com.
  16. ^ "Il Parco Scultura la Palomba".
  17. ^ "Barbara Hepworth Drawings Displayed in Major Wakefield Exhibition - ArtLyst". Artlyst. Retrieved 30 October 2012. The studio was designated the Barbara Hepworth Museum in the following year and, on coming under the Tate's aegis in 1980, secured an unrivalled collection of her work for the Gallery.
  18. ^ "The Cass Sculpture Foundation". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2012. Since 1992, the Cass Sculpture Foundation has commissioned over 400 new monumental sculptures from emerging and established British sculptors. There are currently over 80 works on display in the 26-acre grounds of the charity at Goodwood, West Sussex.
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  20. ^ The Irwell Sculpture Trail is not strictly a park, since it is defined by a trail.
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  23. ^ Included because architecture may also be viewed as sculpture in its widest sense
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Further reading edit

  • 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.
  • Stępnik, Małgorzata; "Modernist sculpture parks and their ideological contexts – on the basis of the oeuvres by Gustav Vigeland, Bernhard Hoetger and Einar Jónsson," The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, No 47 (4/2017), pp. 143–169. e-ISSN 2353-723X / p-ISSN 1643-1243