Art has played a leading role in Bilbao’s revival, and the Guggenheim Museum has been centre stage throughout this process. Twenty-five years since it opened, Bilbao is inconceivable without it.

But the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao — an institution owned by an American foundation, in the heart of Spain — has turned itself into something worse: an instrument of anti-American propaganda.

The Guggenheim is staying in Bilbao, well, at least for the time being. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced yesterday that it was renewing its agreement with the Basque museum until 2034.

The best approach to visiting Bilbao's Guggenheim is simply to immerse yourself in a modern-art happening, rather than to count on seeing a particular piece or a specific artist's works. Gehry ...

A book about the museum, "The Permanent Collection of the Guggenheim Museums," also is being put together. The Guggenheim Bilbao is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The Guggenheim opened its museum in Bilbao 25 years ago, turning a struggling industrial town into a cultural metropolis. The building designed by Frank Gehry is now the city's landmark.

At the Guggenheim Bilbao, a 15- to 20-person task force representing nearly every department at the museum began mulling reopening as soon as the museum closed March 14.

Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened 20 years ago this week and changed the course of architecture, the history of Los Angeles and the career path of at least one American ...

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain. (Photo credit: Dean Treml/Red Bull via Getty Images) This year in northern Spain the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum turns twenty years old.

Twenty years ago this month, Frank Gehry’s masterful Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain fired an architectural shot heard ’round the world. Its revolutionary, shimmering mass of titanium ...

Nerea Abasolo, Journalist, Bilbao: “We have 350,000 inhabitants in the downtown. The first year we received 700,000 visitors. And then a kind of community self-esteem has increased so much.