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CAFE
TICKET DESK
EXHIBITION
GIFT SHOP
ENTRANCE
MUSEUM
MARBLEGALLERY
13 — 1900 : RODIN’SGLORY
SCULPTURES ON PILLARS
CAMILLECLAUDEL AND HAND
IRIS, MESSENGER OF THE GODS
15 — ENLARGEMENT AND FRAGMENTATION
14 — ASSEMBLAGEAND VARIATION
16 — CAMILLECLAUDEL
THE AGE OF MATURITY
17 — RODINAND ANTIQUITY
THE WALKING MAN
18 — TOWARDS THE 20TH CENTURY
DANCE MOVEMENTS
VISIT CONTI-NUES HERE
9 — HUGO,BALZAC
BALZAC’SDRESSINGGOWN
VICTOR HUGO
12 — MONET,VAN GOGH
11 — THE ART OF PORTRAITURE
10 — RODIN,CARRIÈRE
19 — PRINTS AND DRAWINGSPÈRE TANGUY
THE CATHEDRAL
PALLAS WITH PARTHENON
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CLOAKROOM
TOILETS
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LIFT
WORKS OF ART
EASY PATHWAY
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JARDIN OF SOURCES
GARDENOF ORPHEUS
WOODLAND AREA
UGOLINO AND HIS CHILDREN
ORPHEUS
MEDITATION
PIERRE DE WISSANT
THE SPIRIT OF ETERNAL REPOSE
SHADE
APHRODITE
JEAN DE FIENNES
PIERRE DE WISSANT
JACQUES DE WISSANT
JEAN D’AIRE
MONUMENTTO VICTOR HUGO
EUSTACHE DE SAINT PIERRE
MONUMENT TO CLAUDE LORRAIN
ADAM
EVE
FALLEN CARYATID WITH STONE
FALLEN CARYATID WITH URN
ANDRIEUD’ANDRES
JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE
THE GATES OF HELL
BALZAC
MONUMENT TO WHISTLER
THE THREE SHADES
MONUMENT TO THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS
THE THINKER
ROSE GARDENROSE GARDEN
COURT OF HONOR
CYBELE MONU-MENTTO VICTORHUGO
MOTHER AND DYING GIRL
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THE AGEOF BRONZE
4 — ARTISTICCIRCLE
ETERNAL SPRINGTIME
3 — 1880:EMERGENCE OF A SCULPTOR
5 — THE GATES OF HELL
THE KISS
THE THINKER
7 — 1889 :FAME6 — PUBLIC
MONUMENTS
THE BURGHERSOF CALAIS
DANAÏD
8 — RODINAT THE HÔTEL BIRON
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THE HAND OF GOD
HALL CANTOR
ENTRANCE
AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: SCULPTING TECHNIQUES
CLOAKROOM
1 — BEGIN-NINGS
2 — EARLY CAREER
BELGIANLANDSCAPES
THE MANWITH THE BROKENNOSE
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MUSEUM— PERMANENT COLLECTIONS— FIRST FLOORMUSÉE RODIN PARIS
MUSEUM— PERMANENT COLLECTIONS— GROUND FLOOR
MUSÉE RODIN PARIS
VISITING THE MUSEUM
The museum’s permanent collections are on display in the Hôtel Biron, a prestigious mansion built in the early 18th century by the architect Jean Aubert.
The museum is organized chronologically, beginning on the ground floor with Rodin’s artistic training, his years in Belgium, the sculpture called The Age of Bronze and the commissions he received for The Gates of Hell and the Monument to the Burghers of Calais. The ground-floor visit ends with a reconstruction of a room in the mansion as it was in the sculptor’s day.
The visit continues on the first floor with a theme-based presentation of Rodin’s monuments, his painting collection (including Père Tanguy, a masterpiece by Vincent van Gogh), his first solo exhibition and his assem-blages and enlargements. Another room, devoted to Rodin’s artistic circle, features the work of Camille Claudel (1864-1943). In the room before last, the Walking Man stands among Rodin’s personal collection of antiquities, while the tour ends with a focus on the artist’s most modern works.
The final versions of the principal monumental sculptures are on display in the garden, which covers some seven and a half acres and is divided into four main areas: a rose garden to the north; woodland and an ornamental garden to the south; a terrace, arbor and relaxation area at the bottom. The many bronze versions of Rodin’s iconic works on display include The Monument to the Burghers of Calais,
The Gates of Hell and The Thinker. The Marble Gallery, also in the garden, presents many of the artist’s marble sculptures.
The former chapel now houses the reception and ticket sales area and the museum shop, and hosts two temporary exhibitions a year.
THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM
The Musée Rodin was created in 1916 on the initiative of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), who donated his works, personal collections and copyrights to the French state.
He also donated his property in Meudon, near Paris, now home to the second Rodin museum.
The Paris museum, inaugurated in 1919, is set in a mansion where Rodin lived as a tenant. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1921) first told Rodin about the estate, and when the sculptor first saw it, in 1908, he decided to rent four rooms on the ground floor. At first he shared the mansionwith other artists including the writer Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), the painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and the dancer Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), but from 1911 onwards Rodin was the only occupant.
MUSÉE RODIN PARIS
77 rue de Varenne75007 ParisT. +33 (0)1 44 18 61 10musee-rodin.fr
AUDITORIUM21 bd des Invalides
GETTING THEREMetro line 13stop at VarenneRER line Cstop at Invalides
OPENING HOURSTuesday to Sunday10 am to 6.30 pmLast ticket sales 5.30 pm
AUDIO GUIDEAUDIOPHONE
MUSEUM SHOPboutique-musee-rodin.fr
THE CAFET. +33(0)1 45 55 84 39
VISITING CONDITIONS AND VISITOR SERVICESThe garden may be closed in bad weather.Wheelchairs are available free of charge. The art-works are fragile, so please do not touch them. Visitors may not use cell phones, smoke, eat or drink in the exhibition areas. Photography is permitted in the permanent collections, but no flash, tripods or camera extension poles are allowed.
ONLINE RESOURCES Documentation files and artwork descriptionsat musee-rodin.fr
RESEARCH CENTERArchives, library, documentation by appointment [email protected] or [email protected]
[email protected]. +33(0)1 44 18 61 58
ORGANIZATION OF PRIVATE EVENTSlocation.espaces @musee-rodin.frT. +33(0)1 44 18 62 05 and +33(0)1 44 18 62 08
MUSÉE RODIN MEUDON
The Musée Rodin de Meudon is 5.5 miles from the Musée Rodin in Paris to the south-west of the city; it can be reached in 45 minutes by public transport. This estate, where Rodin lived and worked, comprises a villa, a gallery and the garden in which he is buried. The artist’s plaster casts and some of the ancient sculptures he collected are displayed in the atmosphere of a sculptor’s studio. An ideal complement to the Musée Rodin in Paris, the Meudon estate provides a more intimate insight into the life of one of the world’s greatest sculptors.
VILLA DES BRILLANTS19, av. Auguste Rodin92190 MeudonT. +33(0)1 41 14 35 00musee-rodin.fr
OPENING HOURSFriday, Saturday and Sunday, 1 pm to 6 pm
GETTING THEREMetro line 12,stop at the terminus Mairie d’Issy, then bus 190, 290 or 169, stop at Hôpital PercyRER line C, stop at Meudon – Val-Fleury
The Rodin Museum is supported by theIris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Photos— © agence photographique du musée Rodin, ph. P. Hisbacq (cover) and J. Manoukian ; © musée Rodin, ph. A. Berg, J. de Calan, C. Weiner. Graphic design: Intégral Ruedi Baur Paris. Printing: imprimerie Champagnac.
