PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Art Commission voted on Wednesday to relocate the iconic Rocky statue to the top of the Philadelphia Art Museum steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The original statue that is currently atop the steps will be returned to Rocky star Sylvester Stallone, clearing the way for the eight-foot replica.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
In a nearly unanimous vote, the Philadelphia Art Commission approved a plan to move the statue from the bottom of the Art Museum steps to the top.<\/p>\n
The original statue, which was commissioned by Sylvester Stallone for Rocky III, will be returned to the 79-year-old actor who had been lending it to the city.<\/p>\n
Before the eight-and-a-half foot bronze replica is placed in its new spot atop the steps, it will be put on display inside the museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What’s next:<\/p>\n
It’s unclear exactly when the statue switch will be made, but previous reporting indicates the project will cost about $150,000 in taxpayer money<\/a>.<\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n The iconic statue was sculpted by A. Thomas Schomberg in 1982 and was used in the third installment of the boxing film franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n The statue has become a Philly landmark for tourists who channel their inner Rocky by climbing the 72 steps, raising their arms in triumph.<\/p>\n A third replica statue remains at Philadelphia International Airport.<\/p>\n Philadelphia<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Art Commission voted on Wednesday to relocate the iconic Rocky statue to the top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-86764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}