Guggenheim Museum

British  

/ ˈɡʊɡənˌhaɪm /

noun

1. an international chain of art museums, some of which are architecturally important buildings in their own right, most notably one in New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1956–59), and one in Bilbao, desgned by Frank O Gehry (1997)

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Example Sentences

Betsy Bickar, head of art advisory at Citi, recently took a wealthy Latin American family to the Guggenheim Museum in New York City while its doors were closed to the general public.

From The Wall Street Journal

From the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, Frank Gehry’s most boundary-pushing buildings challenged the notion that buildings need to behave.

From Los Angeles Times

Long before the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall made him a global celebrity, L.A. served as Frank Gehry’s laboratory — where he could test materials, shift building types and blur the lines between art and architecture.

From Los Angeles Times

This phase, in which his firm, Gehry Partners, pioneered new ways of using technology to help realize geometrically complex buildings, began with the completion of an ambitious satellite branch of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

From Los Angeles Times

In the early 1990s, New York’s Guggenheim Museum, beginning what would become a global expansion, commissioned Gehry to design a branch in Bilbao.

From Los Angeles Times