53 The Guggenheim Museum Trivia Questions with Answers
53 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which award did the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao win as Europe’s leading museum in 2000?
Answer
European Museum of the Year Award
What architectural form inspired the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s distinctive New York design?
Answer
An inverted ziggurat
What was the name of the Guggenheim museum that operated at Berlin’s Deutsche Bank headquarters?
Answer
Deutsche Guggenheim
Which architect designed the Guggenheim Museum SoHo building for its 1992 opening?
Answer
Arata Isozaki
Which architect designed Venice’s Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, home of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection?
Answer
Lorenzo Boschetti
What was the name of the Guggenheim museum that operated at The Venetian resort in Las Vegas?
Answer
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Who was Peggy Guggenheim’s father, the American industrialist who died on the Titanic?
Answer
Benjamin Guggenheim
What was the name of Peggy Guggenheim’s London gallery, opened in 1938?
Answer
Guggenheim Jeune
What was the first building to house the Guggenheim Museum in New York?
Answer
Automobile showroom
Which architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York, completed after his death?
Answer
Frank Lloyd Wright
Which architect designed the planned Guggenheim Abu Dhabi museum?
Answer
Frank Gehry
Which river runs beside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?
Answer
Nervion River
Which artist created Maman, the giant spider sculpture displayed at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?
Answer
Louise Bourgeois
What is the name of the Venetian palace housing the Peggy Guggenheim Collection?
Answer
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
What was New York’s Guggenheim Museum called when it opened in 1939?
Answer
Museum of Non-Objective Painting
Who founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937?
Answer
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Which Guggenheim museum is located on the Grand Canal in Venice?
Answer
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Who designed the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain?
Answer
Frank Gehry