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The Guggenheim’s Famous Spiral Turns 67 Today
The Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright building turns 67 today. Its opening-day film is a small time machine, complete with crowds lining Fifth Avenue to see what all that architecture was about.
Anniversary: Wednesday, October 21
Opened: October 21, 1959, New York City
Watch: The museum’s opening-day film
Running time: 3 minutes, 34 seconds
Sixteen years passed between conceiving the building and opening its doors. The film ends inside the inaugural exhibition, where visitors encountered works by Chagall, Klee and Kandinsky.
