The Best Sculpture Parks

The Kröller‑Müller Museum, located in the Dutch Hoge Veluwe National Park, is best known for its remarkable Van Gogh collection, but its surrounding sculpture park is an equally defining feature. One of the earliest large‑scale sculpture parks in Europe exists thanks to Helene Kröller‑Müller, whose vision was that art should be experienced in silence, space, and nature. The outdoor collection began to take shape in the 1950s and 60s. Today, the Sculpture Park extends across more than 25 hectares of woodland and open lawns.

Over 160 sculptures form a landscape of shifting encounters: some appear unexpectedly along woodland paths, while others command wide, sunlit lawns. New works continue to be added.

The collection includes works by Barbara Hepworth, Marta Pan, Jean Dubuffet, Sol LeWitt, Giuseppe Penone, and Richard Serra, each piece responding to the spacious, ever‑changing environment. A notable element of the park is the Rietveld Pavilion, an architectural work reconstructed on site, which adds a distinct modernist presence to the landscape.

Visitors often explore the artworks by walking or cycling. Light, weather, and the vastness of the surroundings continually reshape the experience, inviting visitors to move at their own pace and discover how sculpture and landscape shape one another.