The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is the best known from the various museums created by the Solomon R. Guggenheim fondation. It is also simply called the Guggenheim. In 2005, it counts approximatively 6 000 works which 3% only are exposed. 

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Originally, it’s name was “The Museum of non-objective painting” and it was created to be a place of exposure of the cutting edge art of modernistic artists. The current place of the museum, in the angle of the 89th street and the 5th avenue, in front of Central Park, date from 1959 after the new building was drawn by Frank Lloyd Wright, who died before the end of the work and the opening of the museum on October 21st, 1959.

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The museum space has a structue in helix where the visitor reaches at first the summit, the comes down gradually up the ground level by a little tilted banister: the notion of showroom so disappears for the benefit of a continuity of presentation. Like the effect of a tobogan, the visit is fast and effective, we see a lot in a short time. It also allows to avoid the traffic. Guggenheim is a typical example of the support of cultural consumption.

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