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When Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum appeared on the banks of the Bilbao river in 1997, the phenomenon of “architectism” was born.Visitors started to gather here to see the amazing modern architecture of Guggenheim and the extended collection of contemporary art.

£ 34
12 – 19 November 2025

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Museum Guggenheim

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Most of the tourists visiting Bilbao are directing directly to the Guggenheim Museum, the objective to be seen.The building itself is a spectacular work of art, a revolutionary example of the 20th century architecture designed by the famous architect Frank Gehry.Built between 1993 and 1997, the elegant, surrounded, similar structure prepares the scene for a memorable experience of art.In the atrium, the paintings are exposed along the walls of the curved bird on a three-level scale.The gigantic windows allow the natural light to enter, showing art at the best advantage.From the atrium, the 20 galleries of the museum expose the rest of the extended collection in smaller rooms.Colored painting Villa Borghese de Willem de Kooning;Only with wind, time and sound and the sunflower of Anselm Kiefer;The assortment of Humans photographs by Christian Boltanski;the group of 17 paintings from the mother of the mother by Francesco Clemere;Sculptures with three Spanish Red Jim Dine Spanish;and the Pluta Plutai de José Manuel Ballester painting. In the more remarkable but the sculpture installations of the museum are the spider sculpture nine meters high called Louise Bourgeois and the gigantic top of the flower, called Puppy, the work of Jeff Koons.Try a private tour of the Guggenheim Museum, which includes the entrance to the museum and a narrative that explains the stories behind many of the most famous works of art.This elegant but discreet gastronomic restaurant serves from modern Spanish cuisine, with an emphasis on fresh seafood and high quality seasonal ingredients.2, bilbao n nsite officially: https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en