We took the tour and the docent was incredible. The gardens, art, nature and architecture were truly inspired. To really appreciate the experience I highly recommend taking the tour and then exploring the grounds. It will inform the adventure.

Things started out unpleasantly right from the start. In our group of four, two women were Philadelphia residents so they we given free admission. Although I had been a City of Philadelphia employee for twenty years and still work in the city and pay Philadelphia wage tax, I had to pay the full senior rate of $16. The fourth woman, also a former city employee also had to pay full admission.We asked if we could take the tour. There were 3 spots available. Since we were a group of 4 we asked if they would allow a fourth. No! was the very adamant answer. Tours were not permitted to exceed ten people. Our group would have created a group of eleven. (Heaven forbid!)We then went to a room that held a few unlabeled paintings, a few unlabeled mobiles and what I guess was a sculpture. Nothing else! We had no idea what we were looking at. We went outside a saw another mystery mobile and statue or 2 more. The so called garden which we could view from afar was miniscule. What a big, disappointing nothing this museum turned out to be.Even the rest rooms were unsatisfactory. Everything was painted black. The light was so ridiculously dim and everything was so impossible to see that this could prove to be a real trip hazard.I won't be returning.

Rude and unprofessional staff. Had to wait half hour to use restroom. Unacceptable!

A waste of money. The gardens are lovely but I was in and out in ten minutes. A few mobiles, a few sculptures. And the person at the ticket desk was rude and unhelpful.

We were in Philly on what turned out to be the day of a major festival making many usual activities inaccessible. This museum was new so we decided to check it out. We had all seen some Calder work before, but weren't especially familiar with it. It is a nicely designed building, and I don't question the artistic decisions they made in setting things up, but it is a fairly small exhibit, and they don't provide any labels or information about the pieces (unless you take a paid tour, which we did not). To my artistic tastes, I have to say the exhibit was pretty small and did not inspire me. In cases where I view art which I find only moderately interesting, all of the labels and history at least leave me feeling like I gained some knowledge, even if the art wasn't to my taste. In this case, I could appreciate what they were going for, but didn't personally feel very moved by it all, and with the lack of any additional information, I felt I left with almost nothing gained. Quite expensive for the size of the exhibit.A suggestion to the organizers, if you don't want to take away from the artistic appeal of the exhibits with labels, perhaps you could provide some sort of self-guided tour as a free option for those who would like some information about the pieces in addition to the art itself.