Bilbao

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has celebrated more than a decade of extraordinary success. With over a hundred exhibitions and more than ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has changed the way people think about museums, and it continues to challenge assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.

On View Now

Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mirror Architecture (Architettura dello Specchio), 1990

The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of "la Caixa" Foundation and MACBA

January 31–September 2, 2012

With works by 52 artists from two of the largest contemporary art collections in Europe, this thematically organized survey of art since the late 1940s includes painting, sculpture, video, and photography.

Selections from the Bilbao Guggenheim Collection II

November 15, 2011–
October 28, 2012

Brancusi-Serra

October 8, 2011–April 15, 2012

Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao Collection

Richard Serra, The Matter of Time, 2005

The Guggenheim Bilbao's collection spans from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, concentrating on post-war painting and sculpture in America and Europe. The collection includes key works by significant artists including Anselm Kiefer, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and Richard Serra, whose work The Matter of Time was created to be a permanent installation in Bilbao's largest gallery.

Also of Interest

Nerua © Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Foundation

Two New Restaurants at the Museum
On May 29 the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened two truly world-class restaurants: Nerua, a haute cuisine restaurant helmed by award-winning chef Josean Martínez Alija, and the Bistró Guggenheim Bilbao. Nerua is located in the heart of the Museum near Richard Serra's The Matter of Time, and has its own entrance from the river promenade. The less formal Bistró serves three prix-fixe menus of avant-garde café fare, and has an outdoor terrace overlooking the city. For more information or to make reservations, visit the restaurants page of the Bilbao website.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Plan Your Visit

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
Bilbao 48001, Spain

For current hours, admission prices, and events, please visit the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao website

Richard Serra, Double Torqued Ellipse, 2003-2004

Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao Collection

Explore works in the Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao Collection.

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