Imagine walking down the street and seeing a statue of "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin. At first I thought it was just a museum with a bunch of copies. As it turns out The Rodin Museum was the gift of movie theater magnate Jules Mastbaum (American, 1872–1926) to the city of Philadelphia. Mastbaum began collecting works by Rodin in 1923 with the intent of founding a museum to enrich the lives of his fellow citizens. Just three years later, he had assembled the largest collection of Rodin’s works outside Paris, including bronze castings, plaster studies, drawings, prints, letters, and books. In 1926, Mastbaum commissioned French architects Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber to design the Museum building and gardens. This statue is one of 5 of its kind in the world and is considered an orginal.