Overview
- Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments, which opened Saturday, gathers more than 150 works to trace how a film statue became public art.
- The museum moved the Rocky bronze indoors for the run, while a second cast from Sylvester Stallone now sits at the top of the steps on a temporary basis.
- Officials say the statue inside will be placed in a permanent home at the top of the steps once the exhibition closes on August 2.
- Rocky’s longtime spot at the base of the steps is slated for a new Joe Frazier monument to honor the Philadelphia champion.
- The steps draw roughly 4 million visitors each year, signaling why the statue’s placement shapes tourism and the city’s civic identity.