What is the street address of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York?

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York is located at 1071 Fifth Avenue.

The building occupies a prominent site beside Central Park on Manhattan's Museum Mile. Its address places Frank Lloyd Wright's white spiral structure directly on Fifth Avenue, where its unusual form contrasts with the surrounding apartment buildings and traditional cultural institutions.

The museum's location is more than a mailing detail. Fifth Avenue became a major concentration of museums during the twentieth century, and the Guggenheim's distinctive architecture helped make this stretch of the avenue an international destination for both art and design.

Visitors sometimes identify the museum by Central Park or Museum Mile rather than by its number. Those descriptions are useful, but 1071 Fifth Avenue is the specific canonical address. The building's entrance faces the avenue, while its rotunda and ramp organize the interior experience.