Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a renowned modern and contemporary art museum in New York City, famous for its distinctive spiral building designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf art museum
contemporary art museum
modern art museum
museum building
tourist attraction
affiliation Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
architect Frank Lloyd Wright
architecturalFeature central skylight
cylindrical rotunda
spiral ramp
architecturalStyle Modernist architecture
borough Manhattan
buildingCompleted 1959
category Art museums and galleries in New York City
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Museums in Manhattan
collectionIncludes installation art
paintings
performance art
sculpture
video art
works on paper
collectionType contemporary art
modern art
country United States of America
designedFor display of modern art
formerName Museum of Non-Objective Painting
hasDomeOrSkylight glass skylight
inception 1939
locatedInNeighborhood Upper East Side
locatedNear Central Park
locatedOn Fifth Avenue
location Manhattan
New York City
United States
name Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
namedAfter Solomon R. Guggenheim
notableFor iconic spiral form
innovative museum architecture
operatedBy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
ownedBy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
partOf Guggenheim Museum network
postalCode 10128
publicOpeningDate 1959
shortName Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim
state New York
streetAddress 1071 Fifth Avenue
UNESCOInscriptionYear 2019
UNESCOListing The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
UNESCOStatus World Heritage Site component
visitorAttractionType art museum
website https://www.guggenheim.org/


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