Museums & galleries · Upper East Side
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an art museum on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's Upper East Side, holding a collection of modern and contemporary art. Its building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1959, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Why it matters
Wright's spiral makes the circulation the exhibition: there is one continuous ramp rather than a sequence of rooms, which constrains how work can be hung and has been argued about ever since it opened.
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Good for
- Architecture & design — The building is the reason most people go, and it is best understood by walking the full ramp.
- Rainy day — A single enclosed route, shorter and more contained than the larger museums nearby.
These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.
Sources & verification
- coordinates.latitude
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Read from an authoritative geospatial publisher; see the coordinate's own status and role.
- coordinates.longitude
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- officialWebsite
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - official site (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- URL retrieved and confirmed to belong to the named operator.
- address.formatted
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Address as recorded by the authoritative gazetteer that supplied the coordinate.
- operational.hoursText
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - published opening information (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Quoted from the operator's published opening information on the date read.
Operational details last checked 2026-09-07. Facts of this kind are treated as current for 120 days.
The address is taken from the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission record rather than from the museum's own site, which is client-rendered and could not be read from the build environment.
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