Walking through the Central Park of New York, you relentlessly pay attention to the building, reminiscent of its appearance of something alien. And after all, this cosmic facade, indeed, will not deceive your expectations, if you look inside. The Guggenheim Museum deservedly has a reputation for being the most unusual museum of abstract contemporary art.
A bit of history
The museum appeared in the late 60's, when the copper-coal king Solomon Guggenheim discovered the charm of philanthropy in his declining years. And this virtuous feature did not fail to take advantage of the famous art critic and connoisseur of the beautiful Hill Ribey von Enrainstein. A famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright was immediately connected to the project
A successful union of like-minded people gave New York a sensational, and at that time even provocative museum complex, whose architectural and design decision is already a tourist attraction.
Museum exposition
By changing the traditional system of familiarization with expositions of standard museums, the architect Wright the very beginning sends its guests on the elevator to the upper seventh floor, which is the starting point for viewing the treasures of the collection, reverently collected in the local walls. Tourists walking slowly down along the spiral ramp, plunging into the world of various contemporary manifestations of paintings, sculptures and decorative arts, represented in the adjoining rooms. Museums
New York In addition to demonstrating the permanent exhibition from the archives of the Guggenheim Museum playground has been used successfully for exhibitions and presentations of installations created in our time. Examples are the thematic exhibitions that attracted the interest of connoisseurs of art from all over the world: "Africa: the art of the continent" (1996), "China: five millennia" (1998) and the "Aztec Empire" (2004), a large-scale conceptual exhibition "Russia! "(2005).
In the museum collected record a large collection of end webs 19 and 20 centuries (masterpiece procedure 6000), including the works Kandinsky Tanngauzera, Shagala, Arp, Bourgeois, Nirendorfa, Cezanne, Pollack, Rauschenberg, Dreyer, Serra, Warhol Van Gogh, Gauguin, Klee, Picasso, Rousseau, Giacometti, Brancus, Miro, Leger, Delaunay, Goncharova and Rothko.
Opening hours and address
You can get to the museum every day during the week, except on Thursday and holidays from 10.00 to 17.45 and on Saturday from 10.00 to 19.45. The ticket costs 18 dollars. There is another pleasant, more economical way to wait until Saturday and from 17.45 to 19.45 pay for the entrance as much as you want, however the queue is quite large at that.
You can get to the Guggenheim temple for free at the annual Museum Mile Festival "Which all residents of New York always look forward to with special impatience. The site for the construction of the museum was chosen by Solomon and Wright very picturesque - adjacent to the Central Park section between 88th and 89th streets on Fifth Avenue. You can get to it with the help of the metro, without missing the station "86th Street."
The noble cause of the Guggenheim was so inspired by the world community of art historians that the branches of this brilliant work of architecture of the 20th century began to appear on the initiative of the Guggenheim Foundation. Now a network of museums includes an exhibition in Venice, a gallery in London, the Museum "Deutsche Guggenheim" in Berlin and Bilbao (Spain), two museums in Las Vegas:. 'Guggenheim Las Vegas "and" Guggenheim - Hermitage "
| Interior of the Guggenheim Museum |
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| The gap in the middle of the hall, the Guggenheim Museum |