Off to Spain

This summer I am planning a trip to Spain just before I start my final year of Graphic Design. During the stress of the school year I decided I needed a break from everything and started to plan a pilgrimage/hike that I had heard about in Spain. As time went on I researched more in depth and found out that the starting location of my hike, Bilbao, has a Guggenheim Museum.

In grade eleven and twelve I took art classes, my teacher loved art history and was so excited for us to see the real work when we went to New York on a school trip. One of the museums we visited was the Guggenheim. Up until I started researching Spain I didn’t realize there was more than one Guggenheim. The thing I found most memorable about the Guggenheim was the structure of the building. After Frank Lloyd Wright built the New York Museum, they continued the tradition of hiring prominent architects to design the museums. Guggenheim Bilbao was designed by Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas (now closed) was designed by Rem Koolhaas, the new Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will again be designed by Frank Gehry and the new Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania will be designed by Pritzker prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid. With such a reputation for hiring major architects to design bold buildings, it is questionable whether the buildings or art inside are more famous.

Here are some images of what the Guggenheim Museums around the world look like. I can't wait to visit the Bilbao location.

New York City

Lithuania (awaiting construction)

Venice

Bilbao

Berlin

Abu Dhabi (awaiting construction)