Students of Spanish in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

On Tuesday the 24th May at 3pm, Instituto Hemingway is offering a trip to visit the Guggenheim Museum to all its students of Spanish. The meeting point is in school at 3pm and from there we will walk along the river to reach the museum.

This museum of modern and contemporary art opened in 1997. It is one of the four museums that form part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and is very well known for the design of its building, conceived by the Canadian architect Frank O´Gehry.

Since its inauguration, the museum has been an important tourist attraction here in Bilbao, capturing the attention of endless visitors from other counties, and forming the most important and contemporary symbol of the city.

The mission of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is to bring together, conserve and investigate modern and contemporary art, and to exhibit it in the context of the History of Art from various perspectives, directed at a wide and varied audience.

The in-house collection of art in the Guggenheim already comprises a huge collection with its own identity, also complementing the collections of the rest of the institutions belonging to the Guggenheim Foundation. Currently, the collections of the museum include works from some of the most significant artists from the post-war period, such as:
• Eduardo Chillida: “Space for the spirit”, “How profound the air is”
• Yves Klein: “Fountain of fire”, “ the big blue Anthropometry”
• Willem de Kooning: “Villa Borghese”
• Robert Motherwell: “Iberia,” “The journey: 10 years afterwards”
• Robert Rauschenberg: “Barcaza”
• James Rosenquist: “Flamenco capsule”
• Clyfford Stil: “Untitled.”
• Antoni Tàpies: “Ambrosia”
• Andy Warhol: “150 multi-coloured Marilyns”

The museum also contains temporary exhibitions and currently you can see:
• “Chaos and classicism: art in France, Italy, German and Spain 1918 – 1936” (from the 22nd of February until the 15th May 2011)
• “The Luminous Interval”, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection (from the 12th of April until the 11th of April 2011

We invite all our students to come with us to visit this globally famous museum for free.