When it opened in 1997, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao—a spectacular structure made of titanium, glass, and limestone—was hailed as the most important building of its time. Located in the Basque city of Bilbao in northern Spain, the museum features exhibitions organized by the Guggenheim Foundation and by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as well as selections from the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museums.
Honorary doctorates
Visual Arts; California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California, USA—1987)
Fine Arts; Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, Rhode Island, USA—1987)
Engineering; Technical University of Nova Scotia (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada—1989)
Fine Arts; Otis Arts Institute (Los Angeles, California, USA—1989)
Humanities; Occidental College (Los Angeles, California, USA—1993)
Whittier College (Whittier, California, USA—1995)
Architecture; Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles, California, USA—1997)
Laws; University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada—1998)
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom—2000)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California, USA—2000)
Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, USA—2000)
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA—2000)
City College of New York (New York, New York, USA—2002)
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA—2004)