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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens its doors with the threefold mission of bringing together and interpreting the most representative art of our time, fostering artistic education and the public's knowledge and understanding of the arts, and complementing the extensive collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The Guggenheim Foundation, founded in the twenties by Solomon R. Guggenheim and his artistic advisor Hilla Rebay, has collected objects produced in the twentieth century from the full range of Western visual arts. This magnificent collection is distributed in three museums managed by the Foundation: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, both in New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in Venice. Now, the unique collaboration between the Basque Administration and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has made possible one of the most ambitious cultural projects of our time, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
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