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Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York is often simply referred to as The Guggenheim , it is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
It is the permanent home of an ever-expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art. It is also a wonderful exhibition center for temporary exhibitions throughout the year.
The museum was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Painting, under the guidance of its first director, Hilla von Rebay.
Solomon R. Guggenheim , a member of a wealthy family of miners, had been collecting works by the Old Masters since 1890.
In 1926 he met the artist Hilla von Rebay , who introduced him to European avant-garde art, particularly to abstract art.
In fact, Guggenheim completely changed his collecting strategy, turning, among others, to the work of Wassily Kandinsky.
The museum adopted its current name in 1952, three years after the death of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim.
In 1959, the museum moved from rented space to its current building, an iconic work of 20th-century architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Wright’s work is a cylindrical building, wider at the top than at the bottom, conceived as a “temple of the spirit”.
Its single ramp gallery extends from ground level in a long continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building to end just below the ceiling skylight.
