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Guggenheim Museum, NYC

1071 5th Avenue, New York, New York

Description

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum houses a collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art that it shares with its sister museums in Bilbao (Spain) and elsewhere. The cylindrical building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is known for its continuous ramp gallery spiralling all the way to the top floor and the glass ceiling crowning the atrium. There are many world-renown artists featured in the permanent collection or during temporary exhibitions, such as Kandinsky, Cezanne, Chagall or Paul Klee.

Access & Transport

The museum is located along 'Museum Mile' in Manhattan's Upper East Side, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park. Buses M1, M2, M3 and M4 stop next to it and underground station '86h Street' (4, 5, 6) is 600m away (<10mins walk). Accessibility info: https://www.guggenheim.org/accessibility

Instructions & Recommendations

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is very close to the Guggenheim but, in our opinion, time would be too short to squeeze both in one day and that would be an art overload.

Meta review

Mixed online reviews for what is routinely considered one of the top 3 art museums in NYC. Comments relating to the building architecture are very good and visitors enjoy some of the artwork by famous artists but there is consistent feedback regarding a lack of diversity (too many Kandinsky for instance) and depth so that many are left wanting and feeling their money would have gone further elsewhere.

Environmental & Social

Some verbose on the website but no data. Museums do consume a fair amount of electricity. Helps spread the arts.

Conclusion

New York's Guggenheim is actually a great museum, blending original architecture and a lot of interesting art but other venues in the city are putting the bar very high so that it compares moderately well with the Met and even MoMA (subjective opinion, of course). Go if you already have been to the others and/or some of your favourite artists are exhibited there.

Key positive

Great building architecture

many well-known artists exhibited

Key negative

Not very large considering the admission price

Suitability

Accessible to visitors with reduced mobility. Children under 14 may not find the collection very interesting

About this Rating

TYPE

Onsite

RESEARCHED IN

Updated in October 2023

PROVIDER

Koreval

Included Items
None
Timing
Duration of visit
Closed on Thanksgiving and 25 Dec.

av. transport time:0h 30m

est. visit time:2h

Regulated hours

Monday11:00 - 18:00

Tuesday11:00 - 18:00

Wednesday11:00 - 18:00

Thursday11:00 - 18:00

Friday11:00 - 18:00

Saturday11:00 - 20:00

Sunday11:00 - 18:00

Pricing
Age band
Age band
Regular price / pers.
Senior
65 - 99
US$19
Adult
18 - 64
US$30
Teen & Young
12 - 17
US$19
Child
3 - 11
US$0
Infant
0 - 2
US$0
Price for students is $19

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