Earlier this month the Rodin Museum in Paris announced that it will partner with a soon-to-open Rodin museum in Shanghai. The French museum dedicated to the life and work of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) currently has two locations—in central Paris and Meudon; the Shanghai museum, which was masterminded by Chinese-French Collector Wu Jing and is set to open in late September, will be located in the former French Pavillion designed by Jacques Ferrier for Expo 2010 in the Pudong New Area. We caught up with Rodin Museum director Amélie Simier to hear more about this latest Rodin museum and how the institutions are working together.

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In his lifetime, Auguste Rodin exhibited and sold his works both in France and abroad, to private collectors, museums and public bodies. As early as 1912, a Rodin Gallery was established at the Met in New York, followed by another at the V&A in London in 1914.

For over 100 years, the Musée Rodin, a French national museum, has encouraged the creation of Rodin collections around the world in its role as heir to Auguste Rodin. Consider, for instance, the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia (which opened in 1929) or the Rodin Wing at the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum in Japan (inaugurated in 1994). Since 1919, our museum has overseen the production of bronze casts from the original molds and models from the artist’s bequest. Their sale spreads Rodin’s legacy as he intended and draws international........

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