The Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air is a collection of outdoor sculpture located on the banks of the Seine

Seine

The Seine is a -long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Saint-Seine near Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre . It is navigable by ocean-going vessels...

 in the 5th arrondissement, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. The museum opens free of charge.

The museum was created in 1980 in the Jardin Tino Rossi to display sculptures from the second half of the twentieth century. It stretches some 600 meters along the Quai Saint-Bernard beside the Jardin des Plantes

Jardin des Plantes

The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. It is situated in the 5ème arrondissement, Paris, on the left bank of the river Seine and covers 28 hectares .- Garden plan :The grounds of the Jardin des...

, between Place Valhubert and Gare d'Austerlitz

Gare d'Austerlitz

Paris Austerlitz is one of the six large terminus railway stations in Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine in the southeastern part of the city, in the XIIIe arrondissement...

 to just east of Pont de Sully

Pont de Sully

The Pont de Sully is a bridge across the River Seine in Paris, France.In reality two separate bridges meeting on the eastern tip of the Île Saint-Louis, it links the 4th and 5th arrondissements of the capital along the line of the Boulevard Henri IV, and connects to the eastern end of the...

. The museum currently contains over fifty sculptures, including pieces by Alexander Archipenko

Alexander Archipenko

Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist.-Biography:...

, Jean Arp

Jean Arp

Jean Arp / Hans Arp was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper....

, César Baldaccini

César Baldaccini

César Baldaccini , usually called César was a noted French sculptor.César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions , expansions , and fantastic representations of animals and insects.- Biography :He...

, and Constantin Brâncuşi

Constantin Brancusi

Constantin Brâncuşi was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...

, as well as the following pieces:

• Augustin Cardenas (1927-), La Grande Fenêtre, 1974
• Marta Colvin (1915-), Le Grand Signe, 1970
• Guy de Rougemont (1935-), Interpénétration des deux espaces, 1975
• Reinout d'Haese (Reinhoud) (1928-), Melmoth, 1966
• Marino di Teana (1920-), Structure architecturale, 1973
• Etienne-Martin (Etienne Martin) (1913-1995), Demeurre 1, 1954-1958
• Sorel Etrog (1933-), Fiesole, 1965-1967
• Albert Feraud (1921-), Sans titre, 1979
• Yoshikuni Iida (1923-), Shining Wings, 1981
• Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy (1920-), Hydrophage, 1975
• Micha Laury (1946-), Mind Accumulation, 1988
• Aglae Liberaki (1923-), Abellio, 1971-1973
• Liuba (1923-), Animal 82, 1982
• Liuba (1923-), Stèle, 1977
• Bernard Pagès (1940-), Sans titre, 1988
• Marta Pan (1923-), Sculpture, 1969
• Ruggero Pazzi (1927-), Sculpture, 1979
• Antoine Poncet (1928-), Ochicagogo, 1979
• Nicolas Schöffer (1912-1992), Chronos 10, 1978
• François Stahly (1911-), Neptune II, 1969