An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century
The Guggenheim Museum in New York is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums.
Solomon Guggenheim Museum
Daily 10.00 – 20.00
The Guggenheim Museum today is an ever-evolving institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond
1 199 123
visitors per year
exhibition space
10,540 sq. m
museum area
24,000 sq. m
The museum traces its history back to the creation of the Guggenheim Foundation
In 1937, he created a special fund to support contemporary art. Earlier, the millionaire had begun to collect a collection of paintings by famous masters of painting. But there was no suitable place for their exhibition. So came the decision to build a museum.

In 1943, Baroness Baroness, the manager of the patron's collection, suggested that architect Frank Wright create an unusual building to store the unique treasures.
He decided that the works of contemporary art would be seamlessly complemented by the mobility and variability of the spiral-shaped building. To create the huge but "weightless" reinforced concrete structures, engineers had to apply many of the latest, incredible inventions. Not all specialists were able to work with the project of the architect, who was even called crazy.
Thanks to the project by F. Wright, the museum immediately caused a furor. Some artists refused to exhibit in it because the building seemed to them very strange.

Today, it is hard to imagine a more popular place to exhibit contemporary art.
The museum opened in 1959. Both the Guggenheim and the architect Wright did not live up to that time.
There are more than 6 thousand works of famous masters of the XIX - XXI centuries.
The core of the exhibition is the private collections of works of art. In addition to the collections of Solomon Guggenheim.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM

Vasily Kandinsky

Umberto Boccioni

William Baziotes

Patty Chang
There are the unique collections of:
and many others
3 masterpieces from the collection
Andy Warhol, Shadows
Placed in a separate room. Strangely twisted sheets of weatherproof steel, creating bizarre corridors, express the author's attitude toward the variability of time limits.
RICHARD SERRA, The space
Placed in a separate room. Strangely twisted sheets of weatherproof steel, creating bizarre corridors, express the author's attitude toward the variability of time limits.
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych
Placed in a separate room. Strangely twisted sheets of weatherproof steel, creating bizarre corridors, express the author's attitude toward the variability of time limits.
In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum holds interesting temporary exhibitions
Gillian Waring: wearing on masks
Ehel Adnan: a new measure of light
The Tannhauser Collection
The idea for the architecture of the large atrium was borrowed from Bramante's staircase from the Vatican Museum.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
One of the conditions of the project was to place the building in the center of the city and near a wooded area. The place was chosen perfectly - opposite the Central Park, in the center of the city.
Some artists of that time didn't like the architecture of the building, and they refused to exhibit in the museum, explaining that the architecture would distract visitors from their work.
The tour and tour of the exhibits begins on the top floor. They take the guests up the elevator, and they go down the ramp on their own, admiring the paintings.
TICKETS
children under 12
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adults
$25
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Daily 10.00 – 20.00
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