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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is founded in 1937 and it is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best museums in New York City. The main part of the building is a very unusual shape, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This unique Building was completed at 1959. The location of the museum is at the corners of 89th Street and Fifth Avenue (overlooking Central Park). Outside the museum looks like a spirall, becoming wieder at the top. Paintings are displayed along the walls of the spiral. The diameter of the spiral as it curves upwards allows for the entrance of light at each level installing in the visitor a sense of luminosity and tranquility. At the different levels the various sectors of the exhibition are divided by separating elements which receive external light from a continual series of glass window slits, the main font of illumination, which introduce an interesting co-efficiency of variability linked to the alternating of day and night. The creator’s words shows clearly the “magic power” of the building - Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

The building has become a cultural icon and it is one of the most attractive places in NY.