The other museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Guggenheim has a notable collection of Modern art and is host to many exhibitions but what appeals to me the most is not the art inside the Guggenheim but the remarkable museum building itself. It was designed fifty years ago by Frank Lloyd Wright who also designed the Kimball in Fort Worth, Texas. The main gallery spirals upward like a shell. Inside, the exhibitions in the main gallery are featured on the walls of the "shell" as it curves toward the ceiling, a glass webbed window. The art is displayed on the walls of this upward moving gallery. If you are not particularly interested in the exhibition, never fear, you will be fascinated by the view as you ascend or descend, looking down at the lobby or up to the ceiling. In other galleries you come upon interior windows which frame other interior galleries or exterior windows looking out over the exterior of the building or Central Park. The design of each space is appealing.

The Guggenheim is on 5th Avenue, a little North of the MET, across the street from Central Park. Admission is $20. On Saturday evenings after six, admission is donar's choice. There is a line.