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Guggenheim Museum
	The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a popular tourist attractions of New York. This museum was founded in the year 1937. Guggenheim Museum can be described as a modern art museum which helps tourists to understand about the history and culture of United States. The location of the Guggenheim Museum is easily accessible for the tourists and visitors. Guggenheim Museum is located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is one of the best museums in New York City. Here is an overview of the Guggenheim Museum.

The building of Guggenheim Museum was designed by the eminent North American architect Frank O. Gehry. This unique Museum was built on a 32,500 square meter area. On one side the Guggenheim Museum runs down to the waterside of the Nervi�n River.

Guggenheim Museum was originally called 'The Museum of Non- Objective Painting'. Guggenheim Museum served the purpose to showcase avant-garde art by early modernists for example Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. When the design for the site was complete, it moved to its present location which is at the corners of 89th Street and 5th Avenue.

Guggenheim Museum has a history of its own. The distinctive building of Guggenheim Museum is considered to be the last major work of Wright. When the building was being created it immediately polarized the architecture critics. But today it is revered widely. If you look at the Guggenheim Museum, it will look like white ribbon that is curled into a cylindrical stack.
Visit this museum to marvel at.