The new museum’s management would be set up in Bilbao and is expected to be located in a 80,000 square-meter plot of land in Sukarrieta, Urdaibai, now occupied by a building that usually hosts holiday camps.
The Solomon Guggenheim Foundation gave its approval to the Museum’s expansion project around Urdaibai's Natural Reserve area, Biscay, Basque Country. The plans and costing were introduced in New York yesterday by representatives of the Museum and the Biscay’s County Council.
Culture Councilor Josune Ariztondo and Guggenheim Bilbao Museum’s director Juan Ignacio Vidarte accompanied County Councilor Jose Luis Bilbao.
“They saw the suggested place and they were delighted. We can say that we’ll work together to consolidate the project, but, as that was not an executive meeting, we can’t say that we took any decision”, Bilbao, who is also the president of Guggenheim Bilbao Foundation’s Executive Committee, explained.
The new museum’s management would be set up in Bilbao and is expected to be located in a 80,000 square-meter plot of land in Sukarrieta, Urdaibai, now occupied by a building that usually hosts holiday camps and that is owned by financial organization BBK. Savings bank holds conversations with the Foundation in order to make a “exchange of lands”.
Jose Luis Bilbao introduced the Guggenheim Museum’s 100-million-euro branch three months ago.
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