Now on Your Cell Phone or Ipod: A Tour of Fairmount Park Art

An audio tour of the public artworks along Kelly Drive and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway has been launched. 

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.  He was happy to take part in the project:

“For a long, long time, long after I’m gone, I’m sure people will be listening to the same tapes.  And that’s a wonderful legacy, I think.”

Penny Balkin Bach of the Fairmount Park Art Association (right) is executive producer of the tour:

“It’s basically a walking program, from the ‘Love’ sculpture in Love Park all the way down to the John B. Kelly statue along Kelly Drive, at the rowing stand.”

For more information, go to museumwithoutwallsaudio.org.

(Photo #1 provided.  Photo #2 by KYW’s Karin Phillips)