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

On a busy Saturday night in February 2019, hundreds of patrons of the arts ducked out of the cold and into New York City’s bustling Guggenheim Museum.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Just four Broadway musicals launched in the past six years have turned a profit, while key institutions like the Met Opera and the Guggenheim Museum have announced layoffs in recent months.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

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 • Dec. 5, 2025

The first example was installed in a bathroom at New York’s Guggenheim Museum in 2016.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

My wall was covered with photos of famous buildings—the Wrigley Building, Marina City, the Egyptian pyramids, the Guggenheim Museum, the Taj Mahal, the palace of Versailles.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon