Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

"Traveling to Bilbao without stopping at the Guggenheim is like going to Paris and skipping Notre-Dame."

"The building itself is its most important exhibit, and guided tours inevitably focus more on the architectural wonders than on the changing art galleries." Full review

"The Guggenheim, with its eruption of light in the ruins of Bilbao's scruffy shipyards and steelworks, has dramatically reanimated this onetime industrial city." Full review

"The first glimpse of Guggenheim Bilbao’s rippling titanium walls in 1997 was a game-changer. Never again would paintings be displayed in humdrum hallways." Full review

"The Guggenheim Museum is Bilbao's architectural showpiece." Full review

"From the cave paintings at Altamira to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the entire history of Western art is represented along the Camino del Norte." Full review

"Beautiful architecture." Full review

"Skeptics said Bilbao would get a temporary bump in tourism from the curiosity factor as people came to see what Frank O. Gehry hath wrought on the once-industrial waterfront. Nearly 2..." Full review