Josephine Sculpture Park

Josephine sculpture park is one of Kentucky's best kept secrets. A massive and free to view sculpture garden located off the backs roads in Frankfort Kentucky. Pulling in I wasn't sure what to expect. I was thinking maybe it was a small drive through sculpture garden with a handful of sculptures. Man was I wrong! There are hundreds of cool and unique sculptures. Towards the back is a gravel parking lot where you can get out and explore. You will Find yourself veering off the main path to see a sculpture and realize there are 30 more hidden in an area. My family and down family friends spent a small portion of our afternoon here. We only allotted ourselves like 30 minutes to view so there is absolutely no way that we seen all the sculptures here. But we did see was nothing short of amazing. Some of the coolest and most unique works you will find in Kentucky. Overall this is a must do for any art lover or anyone who likes to get out and stroll in nature on nice days. We will absolutely come back and check out this free sculpture park on a day when we have more time so we can fully appreciate all the Josephine sculpture park has to offer!

My buddy and I stopped here and explored and saw the area at all the different sculptures when we were there. I thought it was pretty awesome. I never heard of this place and we were pleasantly surprised with how cool it all looked. We will go back and see more because we didn't get to see it all the time.

Artsy sculpture park just outside of Frankfort. It's free, though they do take donations. Well designed and uncrowded; some of the sculptures were better than others but they did have some cool ones, and it's nicely located in the middle of a forest, with well maintained grass paths. This is a great place to let the kids blow off some steam and run around; with young children, you might get two hours out of it unless you have serious art aficionados in the family.

Free and open to the public. There's no one there to assist or ask questions. You park and explore on your own. It was nice stroll through the park to see the sculptures. Some were nice, some interesting, some I didn't quite get. Some you can touch and climb on, some you cannot...so make sure you read the signs. My kids had a good time.

I had an excellent stroll through the meadows and found the art to be quite interesting. Each peace of artwork captured my thought processes. Highly recommend for some reflective moments of nature and artistry.

If you've never been here before, you need to bookmark this place. NOW.Someone suggested this place to me earlier this year when I was looking for free, outdoor things to do with my family and I'm SO glad we came here! It was such a nice, hidden surprise!The park is open EVERY DAY and is FREE! It's 30 acres of walking paths through meadows adorned with various art sculptures. We spent nearly two hours walking around and looking at various artwork -- and I think we only managed to see about 1/3 of what was actually here. (It was a hot day and the boys in my family can only handle so much walking on hot days.) My husband isn't really into art, and even he enjoyed this. Plus my son delighted in all the fun artwork and "finding" new things. We had a blast exploring.Fun perk: bring some spray paint! You can be an artist yourself and paint on one of the graffiti walls in the middle of a clearing. How neat!I'm looking forward to coming here when the weather is warm again and exploring the rest of the acres! We'll probably pack a picnic lunch/snacks next time!

Fabulous place to visit! Owner stopped her work to come over and welcome us as if we were honored guests.

We had friends who came over from Cincinnati on a cold Saturday morning. It was quite unplanned. They had kids too and so, I thought long and hard on where to take them. Then I remembered this park and thought the kids might like it. Despite living just a couple miles away, I had never been here before.We drove down to the visitors parking, noting the cool horse sculpture on the way. There were no other cars there, we were the only visitors. We spent just over an hour waking the grounds and taking pictures of the sculptures. There are a few sculptures you can climb on, and the kids had fun doing it. I quite enjoyed looking at the sculptures and trying to deduce what they're made of. Information about the sculptures and sculptor are detailed in placards placed near each sculpture. There are a few picnic tables near the parking and a few benches scattered throughout the grounds. I don't think we covered everything but it was getting too cold and so we left. Will come back on a warm day to spend more time. The entrance is free but there's a donation box near the parking, feel free to contribute. It really is a marvel that someone has collected all these sculptures and made them available to the public for free.

You can't beat a Free experience, and this art park is open 365 days a year, from dusk to dawn. After attending art school at University of Minnesota, the owner came to inherit the farm from her grandparents. The park is lovingly named Josephine after her late-Grandmother. I'd heard of this sculpture park in Frankfort, KY years ago; but had never come to experience the magic for myself. My Mom and I were coming back from a weekend trip in West Virginia, heading home to Louisville via I-64 when we saw the sign from the interstate. It's the same exit as Buffalo Trace! Being a Sunday, Buffalo Trace was just closing, so a quick google search (b/c the sculpture park wasn't in Yelp, yet) revealed they were open until 9p. So we said YOLO and found ourselves taking a short drive to find a small parking lot facing a big, graffiti mural painted barn. Visiting on a Sunday afternoon around 5pm, we were the only visitors. We saw people hanging out in the barn, so after snapping a few shots, we walked over to see what they were up to. It was the owner and an artist building "little free library" style houses for an upcoming Printmaking Convention. They greeted us and stopped what they were doing to chat. They showed us some of the community art projects, told us about the Park, how it came to be, how to navigate the field of sculptures and finished by telling my Mom Happy Birthday (9/25 -- Happy Birthday Mom) and inviting her grab a free popsicle from the freezer in the visitors center. The sculptures are pretty incredible. Each one is so unique, and artists from all over the world are represented. Some pieces are pretty clear, while others challenge you to find your own meaning in interpretation. Each piece states if you can touch or climb on it. She also has a small bee farm nestled in the field among the sculptures! (It's clearly marked at a safe distance to keep you from being too close and getting stung -(but it's cool to see them all buzzing around)They have picnic tables on site and occasionally offer classes, concerts and festivals. Visiting is free, but if you love your experience, you can drop a few bucks in a donation box by the entrance or the Visitor's Center (where you'll find clean, flushing toilets and a fridge stocked with chilly water bottles and popsicles). Suggested donation for those items is $1. Pro tips -- the field's terrain isn't level, it's a field -- not a paved sidewalk, so be prepared for a few dips and hills. Also, bug spray is a great idea, I definitely fed some mosquitoes during our 2 hour walk.

This place was a major let down. The fields are pretty when the flowers are blooming etc. but this is basically like visiting an outdoor art museum junkyard for failed artists. It's a bunch of odd looking metal and other material "sculptures" that honestly look thrown together by a group of teens. Some of the sculptures are kinda unique and cool, but the majority are weather beaten, rusted, faded junk. Hey, at least it's free! I'd have felt majorly ripped off if I'd have paid an entry fee to this train wreck. That said, I guess if you're really bored or really into mediocre "art" this could be an entertaining place for you. Even if you're not into the sculptures as art, you can get a good laugh at the crap people try to pass off as art.