Project Type: Museum

National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden

A wide-angle view of the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden on a sunny day, featuring green lawns, a gravel path, and various sculptures including a stack of blue chairs and a black geometric form.

The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden is a welcome oasis in the vast scale and bustling environment of the adjacent National Mall. It is a lush retreat created by plantings, pathways, and furnishings designed to highlight some of the finest examples of 20th century sculpture in the nation’s capital. OLIN’s concept for the garden […]

J. Paul Getty Center

A rooftop cactus and succulent garden at the Getty Center, overlooking a hazy Los Angeles cityscape from a stone terrace.

OLIN’s garden design grew organically in response to the site’s context, specifically climate and light. The architectural parti strove for seamless integration of interior and exterior space. For staff and visitors, the gardens create an exquisitely appointed vestibule for the museum and set the stage for the treasures encountered within. OLIN’s design concept emerged as […]

The Bud and Susie Rogers Garden at the Akron Art Museum

A sunset view of a crowd gathered on the garden lawn for an outdoor performance, with the modern steel museum cantilever and city skyline in the background.

The Bud and Susie Rogers Garden at the Akron Art Museum is a gift to the community of Akron. OLIN worked closely with the museum on the design, which replaces a surface parking lot with a series of terraced outdoor spaces, including a welcoming plaza, a flexible lawn, a meandering path bordered by prairie grasses, […]

Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden

Children playing on a green lawn in front of a stone wall, with the classical facade of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a modern glass pavilion behind them.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a beloved city landmark drawing more than one million visitors a year, but the need to create additional parking for the institution without disturbing the fabric of Fairmount Park posed a daunting challenge. OLIN’s solution, the Sculpture Garden, is built directly over a new 440-car underground parking facility, cleverly […]

Rodin Museum

A wide view of the Rodin Museum building framed by two large, blooming pink magnolia trees in the foreground.

OLIN rejuvenated the garden landscape surrounding the Rodin Museum, home of the largest collection of the Rodin’s works in the world. The landscape enhances the original 1928 plans for the garden by architects Paul Phillipe Cret and Jacques Gréber, restoring components of the original design while creating contemporary spaces for museum visitors and social events. […]

The Barnes Foundation

People sit on long wooden benches next to a narrow reflecting pool with a small waterfall, with the textured stone museum building in the background.

For decades, the iconic art collection assembled by Dr. Albert Barnes was displayed at his summer estate turned museum and arboretum in Merion, Pennsylvania. Now relocated along Philadelphia’s Museum Mile, the priceless collection is accessible to the public as never before. Conceived as a gallery within a garden and a garden within a gallery, the […]