The Guggenheim Museum of Art

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum often simply called The Guggenheim, is one of the most important museums of modern art in the world. It’s located on Fifth Avenue and 89th street.The building that houses the museum was designed by Frank Loyd Wright and represents one of the most distinctive works of modern architecture. The museum opened in 1959, between 2005 and 2008 the Museum underwent an extensive renovation. From the street the building looks a white ribbon curled into a cylindrical stack and its appearance is in sharp contrast to the more typically boxy Manhattan building. Initially this distinctive building caused negative critics because of its architecture but today is world-wide acclaimed as one of the most important architectural landmark of the 20the century.

Internally, the viewing gallery forms a gentle helical spiral from the main level to the top of the building and paintings are displayed along the walls of the spiral and as well in exhibition space found at annex level. The museum showcases the works of history’s greatest modern and contemporary artists and painters: Piet Mondrian, Paul Cézanne, Edouard Manet, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Mirò, Pablo Picasso, etc.