Guggenheim Museum

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Designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and opened in 1997, this museum of modern and contemporary art is one of modern architecture’s most iconic buildings, with its gleaming titanium tiles that sheathe the exterior like giant herring scales, reflecting the colors that light projects onto it. It single-handedly has transformed the city of Bilbao from an industrial wasteland of gritty factories and shipyards into an international art and tourist destination