Frank Lloyd Wright's spiralling white building on Fifth Avenue is as much the draw as anything shown inside it. Opened in 1959, the year of Wright's death, it wraps a continuous ramp around a tall, skylit rotunda, so that visitors see art while moving gradually up or down the spiral. In 2019 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of a group of Wright's twentieth-century buildings.
The museum grew out of Solomon R. Guggenheim's collection of abstract art, first shown as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, and it remains particularly strong in Vasily Kandinsky. The Thannhauser Collection adds Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early modern works by artists including Picasso, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gauguin, and the holdings extend into contemporary art. The rotunda usually hosts large temporary exhibitions, while further galleries occupy the adjoining tower.
The museum draws more than a million visitors a year and suits anyone with an interest in modern art or architecture.
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