Fairmount Park Art Association launches a Museum Without Walls audio tour of 51 Philadelphia outdoor sculptures.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller is just one of more than 100 voices heard on the new “Museum Without Walls” audio tour, which explores 51 of Philadelphia’s outdoor sculptures in Fairmount Park.
Museum Without Walls audio program tours the art of the Ben Franklin Parkway
Posted: June 9, 2010
At an 11 a.m. presentation tomorrow Thursday, June 10 at LOVE Park, the Museum without Walls, a groundbreaking new multi-platform audio program from the Fairmount Park Art Association, will be unveiled.
35 sculptures along the Ben Franklin Parkway and Kelly Drive will allow anyone, anywhere, learn a little more about Philadelphia’s outdoor art.
One of the greatest things about Philadelphia is its abundance of public art— manifesting itself in a number of ways, the most obvious being community-painted murals and outdoor sculptures.
The Fairmount Park Art Association will launch its Museum Without Walls audio tour, a storytelling series for prominent public art.
A unique monument will be built in Philadelphia in the summer of 2010.
The Fairmount Park Art Association receives a generous grant from PNC’s Arts Alive program, the PNC Foundation’s three-year cultural funding effort now in its second year.
Did you know that Philly has more outdoor sculpture than any other American city? Starting in June you’ll be able to take an audio tour of 35 of them situated along the Ben Franklin Parkway and Kelly Drive.
In June 2010, the Fairmount Park Art Association will launch “Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO,” a multi-platform, interactive audio experience for Philadelphia’s collection of public art and outdoor sculpture.