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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, housing one of the most precious collections of modern and contemporary international art, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Thanks to its original spiral-shaped interior design, the Guggenheim Museum is a valuable work of art in itself. Since its controversy-raising construction in the 1950s and 10-story tower expansion in the 1990s, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has been a distinctive landmark in the landscape of the Fifth Avenue area.
In the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum there are 5,000 works of abstract painting on permanent display plus temporary exhibitions held in the main gallery. The best idea to view the precious collections of Chagall, Kandinsky, Pollock, Miro, Brancusi and other modern artists as well as Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin and Degas, donated by Justin Thannhauser, is to take the elevator to the top of the Guggenheim Museum and go down the stairs of the coiled building. What is special about the collection displayed is that, unlike in other museums, there is no division of works of art into historical periods or media used by artists, as it should be rather viewed as an integrated whole.
There is more to the Guggenheim than just an unsurpassed survey of contemporary art treasures. The museum also holds regular talks on art, guided walking tours of the museum and free Saturday evening jazz concerts.
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