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Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA) – expositions, opening hours, address, phone numbers, official website.

Walking through New York’s Central Park, one cannot help but notice the strange “alien” building. And this cosmic façade will not deceive you if you look inside: the Guggenheim Museum has earned a reputation as the most unusual contemporary art museum. See itypetravel for geostatistics of California.

A bit of history

The museum appeared in the late 60s, when the copper-and-coal king Solomon Guggenheim, in his declining years, discovered the beauty of patronage. The well-known art critic and connoisseur of the beautiful Hill Ribay von Enreinweissen did not fail to take advantage of this. The famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright was immediately involved in the project.

Now the museum is a bright symbol of New York, along with the Statue of Liberty and Times Square.

There is a huge gap in the conical ceiling of the building, which plays the role of a source of natural daylight. The building in the form of an inverted tower is a wonderful decoration for the most extraordinary events, which is why avant-garde artists around the world have long chosen the Guggenheim Museum.

Museum exposition

Having changed the usual system of familiarization with the exhibition, the architect Wright from the very beginning sends visitors to the museum by elevator to the upper, seventh floor. Tourists gradually descend on foot along a spiral ramp, plunging into the world of modern painting, sculpture, and decorative art.

In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum hosts exhibitions and presentations of modern art objects, such as the projects “Africa: the art of the continent” (1996), “China: five millennia” (1998), “The Aztec Empire” (2004), a large-scale conceptual exhibition ” Russia!” (2005).

The Guggenheim Museum was used for the filming of the films “Men in Black”, “Mr. Popper’s Penguins”, “International”.

The halls of the museum contain a record-breaking collection of paintings of the late 19th and 20th centuries (about 6,000 paintings), including works by Kandinsky, Chagall, Arp, Bourgeois, Nirendorf, Cezanne, Pollack, Rauschenberg, Dreyer, Serra, Warhol, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Klee, Picasso, Rousseau, Giacometti, Bryncusha, Miro, Léger, Delaunay, Goncharov and Rothko.

At the initiative of the Guggenheim Foundation, branches of the New York Museum began to appear in Europe. Now the network of museums includes an exhibition in Venice, a gallery in London, the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin and a museum in Bilbao (Spain). In Las Vegas, from 2001 to 2008, he received visitors to the Guggenheim-Hermitage.

Opening hours, address and prices

You can get to the museum daily from 10:00 to 17:45, on Saturday from 10:00 to 19:45. Thursday is a day off.

Buy a ticket to the museum online.

Ticket price – 25 USD, for students and people over 65 – 18 USD, for children under 12 years old admission is free. There is a way to save money – it is to wait until Saturday and from 17:45 to 19:45 pay for the entrance as much as you see fit, however, the queue is going to be rather big. You can get to the museum for free during the annual Museum Mile festival.

Address: 1071 5th Ave, New York, adjacent to Central Park between 88th and 89th streets. You can get on the subway, getting off at the 86th Street station.

Tel.: +1 (212) 423-35-00

Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue (New York, USA) — description, history, location, reviews, photos and videos.

Fifth Avenue is one of the most famous streets in the world, it is located (as many people know) in Manhattan. Here you can find not only exclusive boutiques of world famous brands, and there are plenty of them, but also many museums and architectural sights. In terms of its significance in the life of the city, this New York avenue can be compared with the Champs Elysees in Paris and Oxford Street in London. The street originates from Washington Square Park and stretches to 142nd Street, which is near the Harlem River.

The stretch from 82nd Street to 105th Street is known as the “Museum Mile” and contains the following major collections:

• The Barrio Museum, dedicated to Latin American art, is housed in a residential building on 104th Street.
• Museum of the City of New York. It is located in one of the most beautiful buildings in the city, built in the American colonial style of red brick. Museum expositions tell about the history of New York.
• The International Center for Photography is a school and research center.
• Jewish Museum on 92nd Street. The collections contain both examples of classical Jewish art and contemporary art.

At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Fiftieth Street is St. Patrick’s Cathedral – an outstanding neo-Gothic masterpiece and one of the largest Catholic churches in the United States.

• The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is located in the former D. Carnegie mansion. The exposition is dedicated to the history of design.
• Museum of the National Academy of Arts (its collection consists of more than 5,000 works by masters of the 19th and 20th centuries). The museum building itself is an architectural landmark and is considered one of the few ancient mansions on Fifth Avenue available to visitors.
• The Guggenheim Museum is housed in a continuous spiral building. The collection contains works by impressionists, post-impressionists, early modernists and contemporary artists.
• The New York Gallery is dedicated to the art of Austria and Germany in the early 20th century.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Artis housed in a palace-like building. The content of the exposition is even more striking than the magnificence of the facade – the collection contains works of art from all over the world from the Stone Age to our time.

Between West 33rd and 34th streets is the symbol of New York – the skyscraper Empire State Building. The American Association of Civil Engineers has listed the tower as one of the Seven Modern Wonders of the World. The Empire State Building is the third tallest skyscraper in the US and 15th tallest in the world.

From 40th to 42nd streets is the building of the New York Public Library, famous for its bronze lions. At the corner of 53rd Street rises the Church of St. Thomas, and not far from it, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Fiftieth Street – St. Patrick’s Cathedral – an outstanding neo-Gothic masterpiece and one of the largest Catholic churches in the United States.