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The Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org

The Guggenheim Museum located on Fifth Avenue in New York was established sixty years ago by philanthropist Solormon R. Guggenheim and artist/advisor Hilla Rebay.  The first permanent home for the museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  It opened in 1959 and stands today as one of the century's great works of architecture.

"The story of the Guggenheim is essentially the story of six very private collections:  Solomon R. Guggenheim's collection of non-objective painting premised on a belief in the spiritual dimensions of pure abstraction; his niece Peggy Guggenheim's collection of Surrealist and abstract painting and sculpture; Justin K. Thannhauser's array of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early Modern masterpieces; Karl Nierendorf's holdings in German Expressionism; Katherine S. Dreier's paintings and sculptures of the historic avant-garde; and Dr. Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's vast holdings of European and American Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, Environmental, and Conceptual art—that have been augmented through the years by the museum's directors and curators to form one richly layered collection dating from the late 19th-century to the present."