The exterior of the museum
This is the interior
The gigantic skylight.
(I think this picture is in black and white)
This museum was built in 1959, being finished after Wright died.
This museum was Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work.
It was made as one of two new museums built to display the art collection of
Solomon R. Guggenheim. It displays an assortment of random artist's work.
The main building materials are concrete and glass.
The style is Modern Movement.
The main part of the building is spiral. It may look like four different levels, but it is one big ramp that ascends gently. Some people criticize the idea of displaying art on a spiral because it distorts the view as apposed to horizontally. The is also a bank of elevators on one side of the spiral. The roof of the spiral is a large glass skylight divided into sections. That, and a ring of lights light the atrium. There are multiple lights illuminating the pictures.
The overall roundness of the building stands out with all the square skyscrapers and buildings in Manhattan, making this building well known. When Wright built it he said:
"That it would make the Metropolitan Museum of Art look like a Protestant barn."
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