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1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
Opened: 1959
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
www.guggenheim.org
Mining heir Solomon Guggenheim began collecting "non-objective art" in 1929 and created a foundation that opened it's first museum in 1939. This facility opened in 1959 to focus on impressionist, post-impressionist, modern and contemporary art.
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