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The Thinker ponders in a new space

Auguste Rodin's statue of the Thinker, a fixed feature on the Parkway since the Great Depression, is now pondering the world indoors.

"The Thinker" is a blur as the famous Auguste Rodin sculpture is wheeled through the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Great Stair Hall earlier today on its way to a temporary home in the museum renovations at the nearby Rodin Museum.
"The Thinker" is a blur as the famous Auguste Rodin sculpture is wheeled through the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Great Stair Hall earlier today on its way to a temporary home in the museum renovations at the nearby Rodin Museum.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
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Auguste Rodin's statue of the Thinker, a fixed feature on the Parkway since the Great Depression, is now pondering the world indoors.

The statue, one of more than 20 casts of the French sculptor's most famous work, was moved this morning to the Art Museum while workers complete the renovation of the Rodin Museum's limestone facade.

Before going on display indoors, experts reapplied a protective coating to the statue, which Rodin originally called the Poet.

The Rodin Museum, a gift of movie theater magnate Jules Mastbaum, who died in 1926, opened in 1929.