Bilbao

Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently celebrated a decade of extraordinary success on October 19, 2007. With close to ninety exhibitions and over ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao forever changed the way the world thinks about museums, and it continues to challenge our assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.

On View Now

Titian and Workshop, Mars, Venus and Amor, 1560

All the Histories of Art
The Kunsthistorisches Museum

October 7, 2008–January 18, 2009

All the Histories of Art: The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna gathers artworks ranging from the antiquities of Egypt, Greece, and Rome to great examples of medieval, renaissance, and baroque art. Arranged thematically, these works convey the history of Western art according to its common subject matter, rather than by pure chronology.

 

Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao Collection

Jeff Koons, Tulips, 1995–2004
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection has a unique, yet complementary, identity from the collections at the other Guggenheim institutions, featuring works by some of the most significant artists of the second half of the 20th century: Eduardo Chillida, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Clyfford Still, Antoni Tàpies, and Andy Warhol, among others.

 

Also of Interest

Daniel Buren, Arcos Rojos, 2007

Arcos Rojosby Daniel Buren
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao commissioned French artist Daniel Buren to create a site-specific work that uses the La Salve Bridge, located next to the museum. Designed as a vertical piece perpendicular to the bridge, out of which three circles located at equal distances from each other are cut, Arcos Rojos makes the structure of the La Salve Bridge a more visible and inviting entrance to the city center.

 

Plan Your Visit

Guggenheim Musem Bilbao
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
48001 Bilbao
BIZKAIA
Spain


For current hours, admission prices, and events, please visit the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Web site.

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