Brunel Sculpture Garden at Brunel Park - a Historic Outdoor Sculpture Park
A $10-20 Per Adult/$5 per Child Donation is Suggested
Uncover a hidden gem of the Catskills! Brunel Sculpture Garden is located at the intersection of DeSilva Road and State Route NY-28 in the Hamlet of Boiceville, Town of Olive, NY just west of Fabulous Furniture, Bread Alone, and the Boiceville Inn on Old Route 28, where parking is available. You can ride the free UCAT Z Bus from Kingston to DeSilva Road. Bicycles and dogs on leashes are welcome. Public restroom facilities are available nearby.
Hours
Brunel Sculpture Garden is open for self-guided tours daily from 1 to 5pm (and from 12 -4 pm weather permitting from December 1 to March 1). Brunel Park will close in snowy, icy, or other inclement weather conditions. If the Park is closed, you can still visit using our digital online guide, courtesy of Bloomberg Connects: https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/friendsOfBrunelPark
Brunel Park is historic and therefore does not fully conform to ADA accessibility guidelines. The upper sculpture park is not wheelchair accessible, but some accommodations can be made to assist visitors with accessibility requirements. Please contact us ahead of your visit if you require accessibility assistance.
Phone
845 - 205 - 3839
We are a 3-minute walk to Bread Alone, next door to Local Goods, and less than a quarter of a mile from the Ashokan Rail Trail’s Boiceville Trailhead.
We are kid-friendly, pet-friendly, gardener-friendly, and family-friendly outdoor sculpture park! Make this a stop on your tour of the Mid-Hudson Valley!
Host your next family picnic at Brunel Park! Contact us to make reservations. Nikitin@brunelpark.org
Explore Brunel Sculpture Garden with Bloomberg Connects!
Our Bloomberg Connects on-line digital experience guide is now LIVE! Designed to enhance your experience of BRUNEL PARK before, during, and after your visit! Audio tours, interviews, never before seen videos, are yours to savor and enjoy! Our guide takes you behind the scenes with exclusive multimedia perspectives from artists, curators, and more.
Our digital guide features:
Articles about the Life and Times of Emile Brunel
An AR exhibit featuring images of famous visitors to Le Chalet Indien
Original songs and never before seen vintage videos
An interactive map of the Sculpture Garden
Multilingual capabilities available through Google Translate.
Best-in-class accessibility:
Including screen reader support, zoom, font size adjustment, transcripts, subtitles, alt-text, and more
Verbal description and audio tour recordings
You can download the free Bloomberg Connects app now to plan your trip and map out your unique experience. With the Bloomberg Connects app, you can also explore hundreds of museums, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and cultural spaces around the world and around the region. Multilingual capabilities are available through Google Translate.
While visiting, use the on-site signage promoting our Bloomberg Connects digital guide to access content instantly from the palm of your hand—no download necessary.
Self-Guided Garden Walking Tour Available Daily Year-Round from 1-5pm (12 pm to 4 pm from December 1 through March 31)
Visitors to the sculpture garden are encouraged to pick up our self-guided walking tour brochure from the visitor kiosk to identify the sculptures in the collection and learn more about this historic property! Take a free postcard or bookmark as a souvenir!
Scan the QR code to open the Scavenger Hunt on your phone or laptop!
Scavenger Hunt!
Welcome kids! Our scavenger hunt gives you two different ways to experience the sculpture garden. Challenge Level 1: Follow along with the numbers on the Self-Guided Walking tour. Challenge Level 2: Just seek and find them! Complete the hunt successfully and you will win a prize. You can download the Scavenger Hunt before you arrive. Print it double sided, landscape, flip on short edge, to make your very own booklet. Or just scan the QR code. Oh, and do bring your parents along!
Thanks to Andrea Zabel, M.Ed. for creating the Scavenger Hunt and to Ms. Mitchell’s second graders at Phoenicia Elementary School for completing it!
Check out our Zine!
“Indigenous Names and Uses of Plants at Brunel Park”
This is a guide to our garden like no other! The names of native and pollinator-friendly plants, herbs, berries, and trees with connections and significance to the Esopus Munsee Delaware are included with fabulous photos sourced by our summer intern, Kai Meyer, who also created the design. The guide is a companion to our Self-Guided Walking Tour and shows you the garden from a new perspective. It is drawn from Evan Pritchard’s 2019 book “Herbs are Verbs.” Click the button to download the Zine or scan the QR code to open your very own copy! A limited number of hard copies are available for a $10 donation.
Enjoy these virtual tours of Brunel Park’s Outdoor Sculpture Museum!
This footage was shot by Geoffrey C Baer in June of 2024, one year after the completion of the restoration of the major sculptures in the collection. There is more to see, so do come and visit us!
Or come shoot your own video and send it us like AAA Chimney Medics did on June 24, 2024! Enjoy their home movie!
Shoot your own home movie of your visit to our historic site, send a link to Nikitin@brunelpark.org and we will post it on our website!
What to do in the Hudson Valley? We are near 3 other amazing Artist Built Environments and outdoor sculpture museums, that you may enjoy visiting while you are in the area. Here are driving directions to Rock Star Meadow,Opus 40 and the Olana State Historic Site. Stop for lunch in Woodstock, Saugerties, Catskill or Hudson.
