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Pyramid Hill Tuesday, 06.09.2009, 01:03pm (GMT-4) Pyramid Hill is an outdoor museum focusing on monumental pieces of sculpture in an environment of meadows, forests, and various gardens. We also feature a 10,000 square foot "Ancient Sculpture Museum" (opens 2008) displaying Roman, Egyptian, Greek and Etruscan sculpture thousands of years old.  "The 265 acres here, in the midst of rolling hills, are surely the most beautiful natural setting of any art park in the country" - Atlantic Monthly Located in Southwestern Ohio, overlooking the Great Miami River, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum is a 265 acre sculpture park and outdoor museum combining the lure of nature with the dynamic presence of monumental art. It is a setting where landscape and art come together in natural galleries among vast meadows and woodlands. It has been said that a fine piece of art never truly reaches completion, and the same holds true for a world-class park. Pyramid Hill will always be evolving to become better than it is today... Pyramid Hill is an outdoor museum focusing on monumental pieces of sculpture in an environment of meadows, forests, and various gardens. Our mission will include the eventual establishment of a collection which will demonstrate the complete history of sculpture, making Pyramid Hill the only art park in the world working on the accomplishment. Educational programs in art, horticulture, geology, and the environment will make Pyramid Hill a busy learning center. Pyramid Hill Park offers: Gardens & 7 Lakes (some complimented by fountains or surrounded by gardens) Bus Tours Hiking Trails Paved roads for touring the park Picnic Facilities. Handicapped Accessible Restrooms Rental Facilities  Amphitheatre (with room for 1000 guests) Festival Pavilion Historic Stone House built by pioneers Annual Art Fair Annual Holiday Lights Display, Thanksgiving through New Year's Pyramid Hill is governed by a Board of Trustees. The Park activities are facilitated by 3 full-time staff, 3 part-time staff, 7-8 seasonal grounds workers, and more than 100 volunteers. Vital Park objectives include: Maintain a natural environment as a venue for artistic expression. Acquire and display quality works of art in ways that are aesthetically pleasing Encourage access to the environment through community outreach efforts Encourage artistic abilities through art acquisitions and competitions Provide education programs to increase understanding and appreciation of sculpture as an art form. Our mission is the eventual establishment of a collection which will demonstrate the complete history of sculpture by mankind, making Pyramid Hill the only art park in the world working on the accomplishment. Educational programs in art, horticulture, geology, and the environment makes Pyramid Hill a busy learning center. Admission is $8.00 for adults, $1.50 for children Facilities Pyramid Hill has several indoor and outdoor venues available for rental. We have facilities which can accomodate as many as 600 people. Artist "Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists."-- Marcel Proust To view our Pyramid Hill Gallery DailyNewsInc

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