The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden virtual tours provide an opportunity to visit the Garden from any location in the world. Choose a destination from the list on the right to view a 360-degree QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) movie.

VRML Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Commissioned in 1998 by the Walker Art Center's Gallery 9, the VRML Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is a virtual reality tour of the Garden grounds. In this experiment into the possibilities of Web-based 3-D environments, the viewer moves down Garden pathways, discovering key monuments in the park. Requires VRML 2.0 plug-in.

Sol LeWitt was commissioned to design a crosswalk between the Walker and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden for the Garden's inauguration. Lines in Two Directions (1988), visible in this QTVR movie, has since been removed due to the negative effects of many hard winters.

Separating the four courtyards of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden are two perpendicular, gravel-lined walkways, or allées, planted at regular intervals with linden trees.

The southern half of the garden is composed of four courtyards, each 100 feet square and bordered by dense evergreen hedges planted in low, carnelian granite walls. Works by Tony Smith, Ellsworth Kelly, and Richard Serra are visible in this “outdoor gallery.”

Surrounded by palm trees, Frank Gehry’s Standing Glass Fish (1986) is the focus of the central house of the Cowles Conservatory.