Guggenheim museum bilbao

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum complex, designed by Frank O. Gehry, consists of interconnected buildings whose extraordinary free-form titanium-sheathed mass suggests a gigantic work of abstract sculpture. Hailed as the most important structure of its time when it opened in 1997,

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When it opened in 1997, the Frank Gehry designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a spectacular structure made of titanium, glass and limestone, was instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time. Located in the Basque city of Bilbao in northern Spain, the museum features exhibitions organized by the Guggenheim Foundation and by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as well as selections from the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museums. With over a hundred exhibitions and more than ten…