Guggenheim Museum

World-famous architect Philip Johnson called the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao "the greatest building of our time." It is "a miracle," said The New York Times. Certainly, few buildings in history have generated so much praise or have so greatly changed a city as Frank Gehry's museum on the industrial riverfront of Bilbao.The city, once the culturally moribund commercial center of Spain's Basque region, was revitalized by the 1997 opening of this radically unconventional museum -- an irregular fusion of limestone, glass, and a shell of thousands of lustrous titanium sheets.Located on the northern coast of Spain, in Basque country, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a contemporary art centre housed in a unique building, designed by the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and built by Ferrovial, which stands alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the centre of the city.An official agreement to this end was signed in February 1992 by Basque President José Antonio Ardanza and the Foundation. TheGuggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in 1997.