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An Apollonaut travel guide
The place behind the collection.
A museum of non-objective painting, a spiral by Frank Lloyd Wright and a place on the World Heritage List offer several ways into the story of the Guggenheim.
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A museum of non-objective painting
The museum opened in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, directed by Hilla von Rebay, and was renamed for Solomon R. Guggenheim in 1952.
Its collection now numbers about 8,000 works.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral
Frank Lloyd Wright worked on the design from 1943, and the building opened on 21 October 1959, six months after his death.
A ten-storey annex by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates was completed in 1992.
A landmark of world architecture
The museum is a New York City landmark and a National Historic Landmark, and since 2019 part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
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