Discover beautiful sculptures by local talent across the UK. A wonderful range of parks with green areas and amazing sculptures are waiting for your visit! Feel like you’re in an Art Gallery, only in the open air. Walking along the parks’ alleys, you will have lots of fascinating things to see. The United Kingdom has a wide range of sculpture parks.
The British Ironworks Centre Sculpture Park
Be amazed at the UK’s largest metal safari park with over 100 sculptures on show. We think kids will love posing next to them. Look out for the Spoon Gorilla is most characterist sculpture in Park. Did you know this beautiful piece is made from 40,000 spoons! The other sculptures are also worth seeing. Enjoy over 70 acres of outdoors with plenty of space for kids, walking trails, children’s play area and greenery.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an international sculpture park set in a picturesque landscape with 500 acres of historic parkland, woods and lakes to explore, over 100 outdoor sculptures, four indoor galleries, delicious food and drink and award-winning shops.
YSP is the perfect place to engage with art and nature, experience something new and improve your wellbeing. Outdoors you will find artworks by incredible international artists, including Daniel Arsham, Jaume Plensa, Kimsooja, Niki de Saint Phalle and Robert Indiana, as well as sculptures by Yorkshire’s finest Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. For YSP’s younger visitors, discover the Little Wild Wood, where children can play, create and imagine together in natural surroundings.
Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden
Tout Quarry Nature Reserve and Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an international sculpture park set in a picturesque landscape with 500 acres of historic parkland, woods and lakes to explore, over 100 outdoor sculptures, four indoor galleries, delicious food and drink and award-winning shops.
YSP is the perfect place to engage with art and nature, experience something new and improve your wellbeing. Outdoors you will find artworks by incredible international artists, including Daniel Arsham, Jaume Plensa, Kimsooja, Niki de Saint Phalle and Robert Indiana, as well as sculptures by Yorkshire’s finest Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. For YSP’s younger visitors, discover the Little Wild Wood, where children can play, create and imagine together in natural surroundings.
Possibly one of the most famous sculptures at Tout Quarry is the Roy Dog. Legend has it that the Roy Dog was as big as a man. He had one green eye and one red eye. He would wait for smugglers and fishermen to pass his cave and then drag them inside, never to be seen again.
Sculpture Park in Surrey
Sainsbury Centre Sculpture Park
The Sculpture Park is situated across the University campus, with its 350 acres of attractive parkland open to everyone. As well as enhancing campus life for students and staff to study, work and live, the Park is open to all to enjoy art, architecture and the natural environment.
As well as the formal sculpture gardens adjacent to the Sainsbury Centre, the Park offers a range of environments, from the dense urban modernist architecture of the campus, to the tranquillity of the Broad and Yare river valley. The Park includes three major works by Henry Moore, recent additions by Antony Gormley, and Vladimir Tatlin’s.
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
The Forest of Dean is situated in the heart of Gloucestershire, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Take a walk among tall old trees and then, in the middle of this wonderland, you come across some amazing sculptures. This is an attraction appreciated by both children and adults.
On the trail you will encounter various sculptures, each equally unique. It is worth paying attention to Kevin Atherton’s “Cathedral” (1986). The posts with blue rings will direct you find a sculptures.
Kielder Art and Architecture Trail
Kielder Art and Architecture is a great way to explore Kielder Forest and Water Park and be inspired by the interesting collection of sculptures and architecture that you will see as you travel along one of the three main trails, which start from either Leaplish, Kielder Castle or Hawkhope. The guides for all three trails can be found and either printed off or downloaded to your phone so you can make the most of you walk and find out about the amazing things you will see. Don’t miss Minotaur, a maze with a number of special features, including a small glittering room at the centre. There is so much to investigate.
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens is a major attraction near Penzance in Cornwall. This 22-acre exotic and sub-tropical garden it’s backdrop to contemplative and inspiring art. International renowned artists such as James Turrell RA and David Nash RA have interacted with the garden to create site-specific permanent works, all harmonising with their garden setting.
Jupiter Artland
Jupiter Artland is a sculpture park, situated between Glasgow and Edinburgh offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore one of Britain’s pre-eminent collections of contemporary sculpture in a constantly-evolving environment.
Set over 100 acres of meadow, woodland and indoor gallery spaces, Jupiter Artland is home to over 30 permanent and unique site-specific sculptures as well as a seasonal programme of carefully curated exhibitions and events.
