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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is now ten years old and has contributed in turning the city of Bilbao completely around, both economically as well as culturally. This is a short story of the Guggenheim Bilbao and how it has made such a difference in this great Basque city.

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Once considered a gray and recession-plagued industrial city, Spain’s Bilbao was thought to be anything other than a fun place to see a fantastic collection of art. But ten years ago, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao proudly opened here and this one event appears to have changed everything in the meantime. Ever since then, visitors from all over the world have been coming to Bilbao in droves, primarily to see the amazing museum. With one side of its titanium structure stretching along the waterside of the Nervión River and the other end towering near the huge Puente de La Salve, one of the main roads leading into the city, the Guggenheim has become what one could call the epicenter of born-again Bilbao.

Not many would have dared visiting this once so tough part of town which was dominated by abandoned factories and shipping yards just a few years ago. Once one of the Basque country’s most influential industrial cities, Bilbao had suffered a substantial economic decline during the recent past and hit a low point around the 1980’s. When high-ranking Basque representatives contacted the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation with a proposal to help revitalize Bilbao in 1991, the trustees warmly welcomed the proposal. Shortly before this, they had approved a long-term development plan for the foundation which was to involve the construction of numerous centers around the world, the idea being to create a global group of Guggenheim cultural institutions, and the Spanish proposal seemed to come at just the right time.

Although Bilbao did not exactly offer the romantic visions of Europe that many Americans have - no quaint castles or giant gardens here, just the functional buildings constructed for the working class during the early 20th century - and although the city’s depressed economy and “outsider” image did not recommend itself to such an ambitious undertaking, the Guggenheim planers were nevertheless quickly convinced that this was the place to build.

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