When it opened in 1996, André Emmerich, writing for The Atlantic, considered it "the most beautiful natural setting of any art park in the country".
In addition to its permanent collection, the park also hosts a constant rotation of exhibitions from contemporary artists around the globe.
[3] FitzGibbons has worked on the design and fabrication of public art installations in San Antonio, Seattle, Knoxville, and Houston.
[1] The Art Climb initiative, a stairwell with several flights of steps and landings, was built to offer a new access to the museum from surrounding historic neighborhoods, while also becoming a space for temporary exhibits.
Highlights of the permanent collection include Cincinnati Story by George Sugarman, a colorful structure that once stood in downtown Cincinnati, the Age of Stone, a huge work by Jon Isherwood composed of nine pieces of massive granite ranging from 12 to 18 feet tall which has been compared to Stonehenge, and Abracadabra by Alexander Liberman, who also constructed the welded steel Laocoon and Torre II.