By fall, the seven-acre park at 71st Street and Buist Avenue will be transformed into a place that pays tribute to the contributions of organized labor nationwide.

“The city’s main tenders of public art, the Fairmount Park Art Association, have created a terrific audio tour –Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO – of public sculptures.”

Check out the aPA’s free and ongoing Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program for Philadelphia’s outdoor sculpture on Phillyfunguide.

The Fairmount Park Art Association (FPAA) launched its highly anticipated Museum Without Walls: Audio project (MWW), an interactive audio tour that tells pedestrians the often little-known stories behind the many outdoor sculptures along Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Kelly Drive.

The Fairmount Park Art Association’s new program, Museum Without Walls, offers the best of both worlds, transforming the Parkway and Kelly Drive into a virtual museum, and visitors’ cell phones and iPods into tour guides.

“Philadelphia’s Parks and Rec. Department and the Fairmount Park Art Association have launched a pretty cool audible (cell phone) tour of outdoor sculpture along Kelly Drive called Museum Without Walls.”

Geo-location mobile technology (as used in Museum Without Walls™:AUDIO) meets the demands of a new tourism world with more customization options and richer experiences.

Fairmount Park Art Association Executive Director Penny Balkin Bach is interviewed by producer Niki Hawkins during the Museum Without Walls: AUDIO launch event for a “6-ABC Loves the Arts” segment.

Philadelphia has more outdoor sculpture than any other city in the U.S., and this audio tour explains all 51 pieces of public art, including works by Rodin, three generations of Calders, Claes Oldenburg, Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz.

Last week, the Fairmount Park Art Association launched a version of Museum Without Walls as a multi-platform, interactive audio experience for Philadelphia’s preeminent collection of public art and outdoor sculpture.