The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, along the Nervión River in downtown Bilbao, with the Maman, a huge spider by Louise Bourgeois

The Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is made of glass, titanium, and limestone.

Puppy by Jeff Koons in front of the Guggenheim.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern and contemporary art museum designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features both permanent and visiting exhibits featuring works of both Spanish and international artists. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x608, 157 KB)Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x608, 157 KB)Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. ... The river Nervión runs through the city of Bilbao, Spain into the Bay of Biscay. ... La Muy Noble y Muy Leal e Invicta (The most noble and most loyal and undefeated) Location Location of Bilbao in Spain and Biscay Coordinates : , Time zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer : CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Bilbao (Basque) Spanish name Bilbao Nickname El Botxo (the hole) Founded 15... Louise Bourgeois (born December 25, 1911, Paris) is an artist and sculptor, whose work has been strongly influenced by the surrealists, abstract expressionism and minimalism. ... Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. ... Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. ... La Muy Noble y Muy Leal e Invicta (The most noble and most loyal and undefeated) Location Location of Bilbao in Spain and Biscay Coordinates : , Time zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer : CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Bilbao (Basque) Spanish name Bilbao Nickname El Botxo (the hole) Founded 15... Image File history File linksMetadata Guggenheim_dog. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Guggenheim_dog. ... Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955), is an American artist. ... The Palais du Louvre in Paris, which houses the Musée du Louvre, one of the worlds most famous museums, and most certainly the largest. ... Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. ... La Muy Noble y Muy Leal e Invicta (The most noble and most loyal and undefeated) Location Location of Bilbao in Spain and Biscay Coordinates : , Time zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer : CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Bilbao (Basque) Spanish name Bilbao Nickname El Botxo (the hole) Founded 15... Pays Basque) see Northern Basque Country. ... The river Nervión runs through the city of Bilbao, Spain into the Bay of Biscay. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ... The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1937 by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and artist Hilla Rebay. ...

The building

The Curves on the building have been designed to appear random. The architect has been quoted saying that "the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light". Designed by Canadian/American architect Frank Gehry and opened to the public in 1997, was immediately vaulted to prominence as one of the world's most spectacular buildings in the style of Deconstructivism. Architect Philip Johnson called it "the greatest building of our time". ^[1] Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Libeskinds Imperial War Museum North in Manchester comprises three apparently intersecting curved volumes. ... 1933 Portrait of Philip Johnson by Carl Van Vechten Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. ...

The museum's design and construction serve as an object lesson in Gehry's style and method. Like much of Gehry's other work, the structure consists of radically sculpted, organic contours. Sited as it is in a port town, it is intended to resemble a ship. Its brilliantly reflective panels resemble fish scales, echoing the other organic life (and, in particular, fish-like) forms that recur commonly in Gehry's designs, as well as the river Nervión upon which the museum sits. Also in typical Gehry fashion, the building is uniquely a product of the period's technology. Computer-aided design (CATIA) and visualizations were used heavily in the structure's design. The river Nervión runs through the city of Bilbao, Spain into the Bay of Biscay. ... CADD and CAD redirect here. ... Look up CATIA in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Computer simulations of the building's structure made it feasible to build shapes that architects of earlier eras would have found nearly impossible to construct. Also important is that while the museum is a spectacular monument from the river, on street level it is quite modest and does not overwhelm its traditional surroundings. The museum was opened as part of a revitalization effort for the city of Bilbao and for the Basque Country. Almost immediately after its opening, the Guggenheim Bilbao became a popular tourist attraction, drawing visitors from around the globe.^[1] It was widely credited with "putting Bilbao on the map" and subsequently inspired other structures of similar design across the globe, such as the Cerritos Millennium Library in Cerritos, California. La Muy Noble y Muy Leal e Invicta (The most noble and most loyal and undefeated) Location Location of Bilbao in Spain and Biscay Coordinates : , Time zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer : CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Bilbao (Basque) Spanish name Bilbao Nickname El Botxo (the hole) Founded 15... Cerritos Millennium Library The Cerritos Millennium Library, the New Cerritos Library, or the Cerritos Public Library is the civic library for the City of Cerritos, California. ... City nicknames: The Geographic Center of Southern California The Freeway City County: Los Angeles County, California Mayor: Paul W. Bowlen (re-elected 2003) Mayor Pro Tem: Laura Lee (elected 2003) City Council: Jim Edwards (elected 2005) Gloria A. Kappe (re-elected 2003) John F. Crawley (re-elected 2005) Mottos: A...

The building was constructed on time and budget, which is rare for architecture of this type. In an interview in Harvard Design Magazine ^[2] Gehry explained how he did it. First, he ensured that what he calls the "organization of the artist" prevailed during construction, in order to prevent political and business interests from interfering with the design. Second, he made sure he had a detailed and realistic cost estimate before proceeding. Third, he used CATIA and close collaboration with the individual building trades to control costs during construction.

The exhibitions

The exhibitions in the museum itself change often, the museum hosts thematic exhibitions, centered for example on Chinese or Russian art.

The museum's permanent collection concerns 20th century art -- traditional paintings and sculptures are a minority compared to installations and electronic forms. The highlight of the collection, and its only permanent exhibit, is The Matter of Time, a series of weathering steel sculptures designed by Richard Serra and housed in the 430-foot Arcelor Gallery (formerly known as the Fish Gallery but renamed in 2005 for the steel manufacturer that sponsored the project^[3]). Cor-Ten steel - Fulcrum (1987) by Richard Serra Weathering steel, best-known under the trademark Cor-Ten steel, is a group of steel alloys which were developed to obviate the need for painting, and form a stable rust-like appearance if exposed to the weather for several years. ... Fulcrum 1987, 55 ft high free standing sculpture of Cor-ten steel near Liverpool Street station, London Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. ...

Some art enthusiasts feel that the building itself too often overshadows the museum's collection.

Transport

There is a stop of the tramway called Guggenheim that is 100 meters away from the museum. The line 18 of the bus system has also a nearby stop. The museum is located 500 m north of the Moyúa station on the Bilbao Metro. EuskoTran in Bilbao, Spain on grassed track Street track EuskoTran (BasqueTram) is the name of the metre gauge tramway system in Bilbao, Spain. ... Bilbobus in the neighbourhood of Txurdinaga. ... Moyua Square with Chavarri Palace in the background. ... Metro Bilbao is a metro system serving the city of Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) and its metropolitan area (Greater Bilbao). ...

Media impact

• The building can be seen in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough in the opening sequence where Bond steals a case of British money from a corrupt Swiss banker affiliated with the villain Renard, the Anarchist's terrorist network.

• The building was prominently featured in the latest Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth's mega-budget flick, Sivaji: The Boss by S. Shankar for the song Style composed by highly-acclaimed music composer, A.R. Rahman. The song sequence which was choreographed by leading Indian choreographer, Prabhu Deva was shot for 16 days. ^[4]

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See also

• The Globalized City, a publication doing case studies on the museum as a large scale development project
• URSPIC, a research project that analysed impacts of the museum on Bilbao

The Globalized City: Economic Restructing and Social Polarization in European Cities is an edited book that provides discussions and case studies on a number of large-scale Urban Development Projects in nine European cities. ... URSPIC Urban Redevelopment and Social Polarisation in the City is a European Commission, DG XII research project conducted in 1997-1999 and coordinated by Frank Moulaert. ... La Muy Noble y Muy Leal e Invicta (The most noble and most loyal and undefeated) Location Location of Bilbao in Spain and Biscay Coordinates : , Time zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer : CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Bilbao (Basque) Spanish name Bilbao Nickname El Botxo (the hole) Founded 15...

References

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External links

• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao website
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao map
• Google Maps satellite view of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
• Review of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao architecture and public spaces with images
• Gehry on how to build on time and budget
• Scholars on Bilbao This website encompasses academic works that analyse the urban regeneration of the city of Bilbao.
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Hall of Shame

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