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.
Exhibitions & Dates
Collection in Focus | Modern European Currents
Jul 15 2025 - Jan 10 2027
Reimagining the possibilities of painting to reflect a rapidly changing world
Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now
Jun 5 2026 - Jan 10 2027
Iconic works from the museum’s collection by more than 20 artists
Taryn Simon
Sep 18 2026 - Mar 14 2027
A massive constellation of images in a sweeping narrative spiraling through the Rotunda