Tourists visit the Musée Rodin in Paris. [Photo/thepaper.cn]

France's Musée Rodin is scheduled to open its inaugural international outpost, the Centre d'Art Rodin, in Shanghai's Pudong New Area in September. Designed by French architect Jacques Ferrier, the building is located at the former site of the 2010 World Expo's French Pavilion.

Auguste Rodin, born in Paris in 1840, was a French sculptor who was widely considered the founder of modern sculpture. In celebration of the newly established Shanghai center, approximately 50 of Rodin's sculptures and his Chinese art collection will be showcased in the center's upcoming exhibition, Rodin: The Inheritance of Modern Sculpture, which includes plaster versions of The Thinker and The Age of Bronze.

Source: thepaper.cn