Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim Museum
An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggenheim Museum is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums. Visitors can experience special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings, classes for teens and adults, and daily tours of the galleries led by experienced docents. Founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum today is an ever-growing institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond.
The Collection Online features a searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection. The site currently contains over 700 artworks by nearly 300 artists from the Guggenheim’s overall permanent collection of over 7,000 artworks. These highlights are designed to reflect the breadth, diversity, and tenor of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s extensive holdings from the late 19th century through the present day. Guggenheim staff are continually expanding the selection to include a larger representation of the museum’s core holdings as well as selected recent acquisitions.
In addition to highlights from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the site includes works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and works commissioned for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. Visitors may browse the collection by artist, date, artwork type, or movement or by several of the major groups of acquisitions that have entered the Foundation since its inception in 1937.
A note to teachers about using these curriculum materials
We have designed this area of the museum’s Web site to provide teachers with curriculum materials to support the use of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s exhibitions and collections both during school visits and in the classroom. This site concentrates on recent exhibitions, but our aim is to develop a comprehensive range of lessons for educators on art and artists in the museum’s collection.
The lessons are designed to be relevant beyond the life of a particular exhibition. They can be used individually or in combination to develop concepts and themes related to the classroom curriculum, to exhibitions at the museum, or to Modern and contemporary art in general.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10128
www.guggenheim.org
General Information
Phone: 212 423 3500
Education
Phone: 212 423 3637
E-mail: education@guggenheim.org
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