Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim Museum is a museum in New York, at a recorded elevation of 33 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is John Purroy Mitchel, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 4.9 miles off.
Hint: Saturdays 18:00-20:00 Pay-What-You-Wish Admission
The story
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. It was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, Hilla von Rebay. The museum adopted its current name in 1952, three years after the death of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim. It continues to be operated and owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum's building, a landmark work of 20th-century architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, drew controversy for the unusual shape of its display spaces and took 15 years to design and build; it was completed in 1959. It consists of a six-story, bowl-shaped main gallery to the south, a four-story "monitor" to the north, and a ten-story annex to the northeast. A six-story helical ramp extends along the main gallery's perimeter, under a central ceiling skylight. The Thannhauser Collection is housed within the top three stories of the monitor, and there are additional galleries in the annex and a learning center in the basement. The museum building's design was controversial when it was completed but was widely praised afterward. The building underwent extensive renovations from 1990 to 1992, when the annex was built, and it was renovated again from 2005 to 2008. The museum's collection has grown over the decades and is founded upon several important private collections, including those of Guggenheim, Karl Nierendorf, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Justin Thannhauser, Rebay, Giuseppe Panza, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Bohen Foundation. The collection, which includes around 8,000 works as of 2022, is shared with sister museums in Bilbao and Venice. In 2023, nearly 861,000 people visited the museum.
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Dates from 1937.
Wikidata Q201469, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 33 m
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 4.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 5.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 22.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- John Purroy Mitchel: 0.1 mi
- Alexander Hamilton: 0.3 mi
- Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen: 0.4 mi
- Group of Bears: 0.5 mi
- King Jagiello Monument: 0.5 mi
- Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: 0.1 mi
- Neue Galerie New York: 0.1 mi
- The Jewish Museum: 0.2 mi
- Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: 0.2 mi
- Henry Luce Nature Observatory: 0.6 mi
- Temple of Dendur: 0.3 mi
- Cleopatra's Needle: 0.4 mi
- Saint Tikhon: 0.4 mi
- Seneca Village: 0.5 mi
- Dr. Gao Yaojie Memorial Bench: 0.5 mi
- Central Park: 0.3 mi
- Evans Tower Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Park Avenue Malls: 0.5 mi
- Ruppert Park: 0.5 mi
- Monterey Public Garden: 0.5 mi
- Summit Rock: 0.6 mi
- Vista Rock: 0.6 mi
- Great Hill: 1.0 mi
- Mount Morris: 1.7 mi
- Janes Hill: 3.2 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 0.6 mi
- Maggie's Magic Garden: 0.7 mi
- South Garden (English): 0.8 mi
- West Side Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Conservatory Garden: 0.8 mi
- Eleanor Roosevelt High Residence: 0.7 mi
- Archibald’s Townhouse: 0.7 mi
- Glen Span Arch: 0.8 mi
- Bow Bridge: 0.8 mi
- Bethesda Fountain: 0.9 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 1.4 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 3.7 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 4.7 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 5.3 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 5.9 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 1.5 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.1 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 4.1 mi
- Hazard Beach: 4.9 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 5.2 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 1.8 mi
- Street Seats: 2.3 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.2 mi
- The Backyard: 6.4 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.5 mi
- Palisades: 2.5 mi
- Palisades: 3.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.6 mi
- Palisades: 5.2 mi
- Palisades: 7.6 mi
- The Loch: 0.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.4 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.4 mi
- The Falls: 9.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 13.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 13.3 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 22.3 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 22.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.2 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.3 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.3 mi
- Barber: 23.4 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 23.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 17.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.1 miles of Guggenheim Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 316° | 268 m | 18.0 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 315° | 260 m | 19.1 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 315° | 230 m | 17.8 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 5° | 208 m | 18.5 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 314° | 185 m | 19.5 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 314° | 180 m | 19.2 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 278° | 179 m | 15.0 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 268° | 175 m | 17.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 05000443OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/170149134
Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Central Park · 0 mi
- Manhattan · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Theater District · 2 mi
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