General Info

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was incorporated in 1937, and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, as it was then known, was established two years later. The Guggenheim Museum took as its basis the new forms of art being developed by such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian. The New York museum seeks to promote the understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, and other manifestations of modern and contemporary visual culture; to collect, preserve, and research art objects; and to make them accessible to scholars and an increasingly diverse audience through its network of museums, programs, educational initiatives, and publications. The New York museum is part of a network of museums located in the SoHo section of New York and internationally in Berlin, Venice, Bilbao and Las Vegas. The New York museum in housed in a Frank Lloyd Wright designed building.