Guggenheim Museum

Museum of modern art. Founded by Solomon R Guggenheim, it opened in 1937 in New York and in 1959 moved to a highly original building on 5th Avenue, designed by US architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Its collection, constantly updated, is particularly strong on early 20th-century European artists, such as Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, and Lyonel Feininger. A new US$45 million Guggenheim Museum is planned to be built on Wall Street, New York, with which the 5th Avenue collection will be shared. There are also Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao, Spain, Berlin, Germany, and Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Guggenheim Bilbao Museo in Spain opened in 1997, designed by US architect Frank Gehry, and built on a 32,500 sq m/38,900 sq ft site in the centre of Bilbao. The Berlin site, called the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, was opened in 1998, located on the ground floor of the Deutsche Bank premises, and designed by US architect Richard Gluckman. The new site on Wall Street, New York, will overlook the East River in downtown Manhattan, and will house art dating from after 1945.