Bilbao is home to the Guggenheim Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is located in the Basque Country of northern Spain. It opened in 1997 and became a major cultural and tourism landmark for the city. The museum presents modern and contemporary art exhibitions, while its architecture is itself a central attraction.
Frank Gehry designed the building, whose forms curve around a large atrium and extend along the Nervion River. The exterior combines titanium, limestone, and glass, producing the museum’s distinctive combination of metallic surfaces and stone volumes.
Bilbao is sometimes confused with Spain’s larger and more internationally familiar cities, including Madrid and Barcelona. The Guggenheim’s Spanish museum is specifically in Bilbao, not in the national capital or on the Mediterranean coast.