Tourist Attraction in Bilbao:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a contemporary art museum located in a building designed by Canadian architect Frank O. Gehry. The Guggenheim in Bilbao is one of several museums of the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation. The museum was inaugurated in 1997, in the context of the revitalization of the city of Bilbao. Since its opening, the museum has become a very important tourist attraction, attracting visitors from many countries of the world, thus becoming the symbol of the City of Bilbao. The exhibits in the museum change frequently, and are mostly works made during the twentieth century, in fact the classic paintings and sculptures are a very small part of the collection, compared to other types of artistic works. The Museum occupies a total of 24,000 square meters, of which 10,600 are exhibition spaces, and is composed of a series of complex volumes, interconnected in a spectacular way. The impact with the surrounding environment is certainly strong, but at the same time not such as to give disturbance, indeed the imposing structure is combined with the context thanks to its sober elegance due also to the materials of which it is coated. The building, seen from the river, appears to have the shape of a ship, thus paying homage to the port city in which it is located. The brilliant panels resemble the scales of a fish, and recall the influences of the organic forms present in many of Gehry's works. Seen from above the building shows without a doubt the shape of a flower. For the design, Gehry's team intensively used computerized simulations of the structures, succeeding in devising forms that only a few years earlier would have been impossible even to imagine. The main entrance is at the end of one of the main streets of the city, which takes place diagonally and connects the urban center to the Museum and is located six meters below street level. The internal structure of the building is developed in three levels, which contain the exhibition rooms, to which is added an additional level, for the conditioning systems. There are also 19 galleries that are connected in this space thanks to a system of suspended curved walkways, glass elevators and stair towers, destined to host the collections of the Guggenheim foundation, the works of the permanent collection, in rotation. also some exhibition routes dedicated to contemporary Basque and Spanish artists. Text processing: Giovambattista Spagnuolo (MYOONI)

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