Rodin Museum attendance surges after restoration
Monday was the birthday of Auguste Rodin, the groundbreaking French sculptor famous for "The Thinker" and "The Kiss."
The Rodin Museum on the Parkway in Philadelphia did not acknowledge the 172nd anniversary of the birth of its subject, outside of a brief mention of the date during a guided tour.
More significant for the small but muscular museum was not the awkwardly-numbered birthday, but that tour. It happens daily, and twice on weekend days. Since the galleries reopened in July after a few years of renovations, the number of visitors has nearly tripled.
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(Photos of "The Burghers of Calais" Bartosz Dajnowski, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art)