Letter to Hilla Rebay, Curator, Guggenheim Collection A museum should be one extended expansive well proportioned floor space from bottom to top—a wheel chair going around and up and down ...

Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941), former Colorado senator and one of the heirs to the Guggenheim fortune. The entire project—plans, materials, construction, furnishing—was provided by Senator Guggenheim.

“A museum,” said Wright, a man who made his own definitions, “is an organic building where all is one great space on a single continuous floor.” The Guggenheim, he explained, was to be an ...

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, or simply, "The Guggenheim," is one of the most well-known art museums in the country, and it's just as renowned for its cutting-edge design as it is for its pieces.