Try The Guggenheim Museum For Something Different

There are plenty of places in the world where you may see some of the biggest and greatest museums

, each of which would be pleasant and conducive for senior class trips. Most large cities in the world have great institutions, but why not try a little something different. There is a museum in America that only deals with art. However, this is not any old art; this is a massive collection of Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract, Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism. It is comprised of the weird and the wonderful artistic elements of our world and is ideal for a break from the norm. Even the building its self is wildly different and charmingly peculiar when compared to the ones around it.

The Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is one of the most important modern art museums in the world. It was created to contain collections of a wealthy patron, Solomon R. Guggenheim, who, in 1937, established the Guggenheim Foundation and began to collect works of art in an old saloon car. With the increasing size and number of the works however, it became necessary to find exhibition spaces that were larger and more suitable. Thus was born the project of a creating a building that was devoted entirely to the museum/gallery, which was created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Its construction lasted sixteen years and when he finished, in 1959, is the architect found that the patron had died. Since opening, it was realized that both the patron and the architect had hit the mark. The building was so particular and eccentric, that it would never fail to go unnoticed.

The construction is juxtaposed to the squares surrounding skyscrapers for its spiral shape, inside the works are arranged along a spiral that is slightly tilted. Since its appearance the building is not aroused any protest, and has been named in many varied ways such as the Snake, wedding cake, the botched donut, but over the years New Yorkers became accustomed to its presence and it now seems perfectly integrated in the surrounding landscape. Inside are works of the greatest exponents of Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract, Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism. The Guggenheim Museum also has a branch in Venice: it is situated in the Palazzo Venier dei Peggy lions on the Canal Grande, which was donated to the foundation by a dear nephew of the famous Solomon, Peggy Guggenheim, together with all its art collections. After the death of its benefactor, in 1979 the Foundation created the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, including masterpieces of a cubist and surrealist style as well as abstraction and expressionism. After the death of his benefactor, in 1979 the Foundation created the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Including masterpieces of Cubist and Surrealist style, abstraction and Expressionism. Branches of the Guggenheim Museum are also located in Bilbao, Berlin and Las Vegas.

Senior class trips are often tarred with the same brush as walking holidays, fishing holidays and bland boring institutional trips, but the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is the perfect counter argument to the traditional views that most seniors will already be sick of seeing. The visitors may love the art, and some may hate it, but all agree that the Guggenheim Museum is unique, and worth at least one visit.

by: Hayley Everingham

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