Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum BilbaoNight view of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain), designed by Frank O. Gehry.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, art museum in Bilbao, Spain. It opened in 1997 as a cooperative venture between the Guggenheim Foundation and the Basque regional administration of northwestern 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. The interior space, organized around a large atrium, is mainly devoted to modern and contemporary art, particularly massive sculptures.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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08 March 2023
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November 14, 2026