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Along with the old town, the pintxos, and Europe’s largest indoor market “La Ribera”, the Guggenheim Museum is one of Bilbao’s landmarks. The museum, housed in a building designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry, was visited by nearly *** thousand people in 2024, declining slightly from the previous year. 

Where do the museum visitors come from?

One in two people who visited the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2022 were Spanish residents. More than half of these domestic visitors were from the Basque Country itself. Among international visitors, France accounted for the largest share that year: ** percent of the total number of museumgoers. Meanwhile, the United States was the most popular non-European place of residency among international visitors to this cultural center that year.

Origin of the Guggenheim museums

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened to the public in October 1997, and it is one of the three museums named after Solomon R. Guggenheim, a U.S. businessman and art philanthropist. Guggenheim established a foundation in 1937 carrying his name, which owns the Guggenheim museums around the world. The other two centers are based in New York, the birthplace of the Foundation’s creator, and Venice.