Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The So­lo­mon R. Gug­gen­heim Mu­seum in New York City attracts vi­si­tors in­te­rested in both the museum's art collec­tion and the uni­que ar­chi­tec­ture of the buil­ding its­elf. Ame­ri­can ar­chi­tect Frank Lloyd Wright de­si­gned the buil­ding, which was com­ple­ted in 1959. The spi­ra­ling struc­ture on the right is a grand ex­hi­bi­tion hall il­lu­mi­na­ted by means of a large sky­light; a new sec­tion, left, was added in 1992. The mu­seum hou­ses a large collec­tion of ab­stract art, much of it collec­ted by Gug­gen­heim be­gin­ning in the 1920s.