By Date

• Free Day!
  Tuesday, October 20 @ 10:00 am.

  

  On October 21, 2009, exactly fifty years after the opening of the museum’s historic Fifth Avenue building, the public is invited to celebrate the Guggenheim’s golden anniversary with free admission. Open 10 am–5:45 pm, the museum will offer tours in several languages and a roster of education programs, including many family-friendly activities, throughout the day.

  
  Green Bag Giveaway
  The first 50 people in line will receive a 50th Anniversary reusable tote bag, also available for purchase in the Guggenheim Store.
  
  Raffle
  All visitors can enter a children’s or adult raffle to win items from the Guggenheim Store. Highlights include a necklace and cuff links from the museum’s Restoration Rocks jewelry line and a backpack filled with a LEGO Guggenheim Museum building set and products from the GuggenheimKids line.
  
  The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim Opens with
  Anish Kapoor: Memory
  Visitors will be among the first to see the New York presentation of a major site-specific sculptural installation that weighs 24 tons by leading international artist Anish Kapoor. Memory is on view through March 28, 2010. Special exhibitions also on view include Kandinsky; Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn; and Gabriele Münter and Vasily Kandinsky, 1902–14: A Life in Photographs.

  Film Screening
  Art, Architecture and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum
  Peter B. Lewis Theater, running time 27 minutes
  10:30 am–5:30 pm

  Anniversary Eye Tours
  Interactive tours offered in five languages, verbal imaging (for visitors with vision impairment), and American Sign Language.
  
  All tours are limited to 20 participants; sign up available at the Information Desk on Oct 21; no advance reservations.
  
  10:30 am
  American Sign Language, Guthrie Nutter and Emmanuel Shawn
  Italian, Raffaele Bedarida
  
  11:30 am
  English, Joan Stern
  Verbal imaging, Ellen Edelman
   
  12:30 pm
  Spanish, Amy Rosenblum-Martin
  
  1:30 pm
  English, Missy Lipsett
  
  2:30 pm
  French, Filip Noterdaeme
  
  3:30 pm
  German, Petra Pankow
  
  Story Circle
  11 am–3 pm, starting on the hour, Aye Simon Reading Room
  Enjoy readings of picture books including I’d Like the Goo-Gen-Heim by A.C. Hollingsworth.
  
  Just Drop In!
  1–5 pm
  Participate in family-friendly interactive projects at stations throughout the museum. Family Architecture Activity Guides will also be distributed to children ages 12 and under.
  
  Free Guggenheim Cookies
  3 pm
  Enjoy free cookies, inspired by the new GuggenheimKids product line, while supplies last.
  
  Live Twitter Tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building
  4:30 pm
  As part of Guggenheim’s 50th Anniversary celebration, share your thoughts about the Frank Lloyd Wright building on Twitter. The Guggenheim Twitter team, museum visitors, and followers around the world will discuss and post thoughts and observations during a live-tweet conversation. Join us at the museum, from your home or office, or while on the go. Include #GUGG50 in your tweets, and visit twitter.com/guggenheim to follow the Guggenheim on Twitter. Meet at the corner of 88th Street and Fifth Avenue.
  
  Harry Winston Jewels Inspired by the Guggenheim
  For one-day only, Guggenheim-inspired diamond jewelry will be on display in the Guggenheim Store.

   

  Above: Museum Mile Festival at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 9, 2009. Photo: Duncan Ball