In 1937, Solomon R. Guggenheim established a museum to exhibit and preserve his holdings of nonobjective art. Subsequent bequests increased the collection, to include abstract and Surrealist painting and sculpture, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern masterpieces; and vast holdings of European and American Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, Environmental, and Conceptual art.

The collection today is a layered, international collection dating from the late 19th-century to the present. One gift - masterpieces by Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Renoir, and Van Gogh -- is on view in a dedicated gallery.

In 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design a building to house the museum ... resulting in an iconic, ramped, inverted ziggurat.

Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.

Exhibitions & Dates

  • Nick Cave: Forothermore

    Nov 18 2022 - Apr 10 2023

    Survey exhibition covers the entire breadth of his career

  • Gego: Measuring Infinity

    Mar 31 2023 - Sep 10 2023

    Explores the influential German-Venezuelan artist's distinctive approach to abstraction

  • Sarah Sze: Timelapse

    Mar 31 2023 - Sep 10 2023

    A series of site-specific installations blur boundaries