Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
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The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is an art museum planned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in Abu Dhabi since 2006 . It is said to be located on Saʿadiyat Island in the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates , which was planned as the center of a new cultural district. The Louvre Abu Dhabi is already on this island . The museum building of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi was designed by Frank Gehry and was due to open in 2017, but no further construction work has been carried out since the foundation was poured in 2011. The foundation workwere carried out by the German Bauer AG and the French Spie Batignolles , among others . In 2011, a group of 130 artists announced that they would boycott the museum, which was planned to cost $ 800 million to build, if the working conditions of the construction workers did not improve. The Guggenheim Foundation is sticking to the construction and describes the museum as "in development". With an originally planned floor space of 30,000 m² and an exhibition area of 12,000 m², the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi would be the largest of the Guggenheim museums. The construction of the museum should take about four years .
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- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten: No opening dates for new museums in Abu Dhabi yet accessed on December 13, 2018
- ↑ Focus: Louvre and Guggenheim: This is what the new art palaces look like in the middle of the desert, accessed on December 13, 2018
- ↑ Associated Press: A decade later, still no contract to build Guggenheim in UAE.Retrieved December 13, 2018
- ^ Bauer AG: Louvre and Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi, accessed on December 13, 2018
- ^ The New York Times: Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Faces Protest, accessed December 13, 2018
- ^ Guggenheim Foundation: About Us, accessed December 13, 2018
- ^ Construction set to begin on Frank Gehry's long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. May 8, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019 .