The Guggenheim

We finally made it to the Guggenheim Museum on this trip after balking at huge crowds on a very rainy day in January. I'm very glad we got in there and had a look around as it is one of the best designed art galleries I've ever seen. The building itself is as much a work of art as the actual pieces on display. You start at the top and work your way down the spiralling ramp that opens on to the middle of the building and you can never get lost. It is simple yet devastatingly interesting with organic lines that wrap the whole space and lead the eye onward ever onward to the next piece of art just around the bend. We even got a vaguely interesting photo from the ground floor which is the only place that photography is allowed. Pity the currently displayed exhibition of an Israeli architects work wasn't a bit more appealing or we may never have left!


The atrium