Museum Changes The Fate Of A City

The top city in the "must to see" list with us when we arrived in Spain, the land of olives, wine, Don Quijote, Carmen and bullfight ... is not the capital Madrid or the famous Barca language, but rather Bilbao, where the “divine story” of a modern city is reborn in an unbelievable way .

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A city changing fate museum in Spain
The strategic location adjacent to Biscay Bay connecting the west coast of France with northern Spain, opening up the Atlantic Ocean from the northeast has turned Bilbao into the commercial center of the Basque country since the fourteenth century. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the development of seaports and heavy industry, Bilbao was Spain's second largest industrial city, after Barcelona Dubbed the city of coal and steel, Bilbao is also the "destination" of workers and workers .



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But this black golden period did not last indefinitely. In the second half of the twentieth century, the shipbuilding and iron and steel factories in Bilbao quickly became obsolete in the face of technological developments. By the 1980s, the situation was almost to the bottom: a series of factories closed, many families of workers lost their jobs and had to leave the city, a few tried to stick to a dull, gloomy future like the the black wall of abandoned factories ..
What to do to "save" Bilbao? Many ideas came up, of which the craziest was that instead of renovating or upgrading the factory in hopes of painting the identity of an "industrial city", investing in an art project with an apple dream.



daring to write a new name for Bilbao - Cultural City.
Culture wants to save the city, are you kidding us Inaki Azkuna? Inaki was then mayor of Bilbao, in fact faced a much more fierce response from a large part of the city population, when deciding to shake hands with the Guggenheim Foundation, a large arts foundation of America at that time was looking for an address in Europe to host art museum.
As committed, Bilbao will spend land and invest in building museums, Guggenheim Fund is an exhibition manager and organizer with the promise of bringing about half a million visitors a year to the city.
Not a bad start. After four years of construction, in October 1997 the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum was like a strange object growing on the banks of the Nervion River, inaugurated by the Spanish king Joan Carlos. And from here on the fate of a city completely changed. Fans of art and architecture from all over the world flock to Bilbao. An estimated half a million visitors each year quickly increase to 1 million and moreover make Bilbao one of the top famous destinations in Spain.




It must be admitted that the first magic power is the architecture of the museum, considered a great outdoor sculpture by the talented Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. We have "spent" a day just enjoying this structure from all its angles. Famous for his unbalanced design style, especially metal materials, Frank Gehry can be said to be the "chosen one by Bilbao" when he performs an important "work" in his career. Steel, which is the "language" of this industrial city, now speaks a different, international, bold and also very romantic voice (see photo in the article).
Guggenheim Bilbao Museum is listed as one of the most attractive architectural works in the world. And the Guggenheim Foundation also brings here the attractions of the art world. For more than 20 years of opening, the museum has organized more than 170 exhibitions with many "superstar" names in the modern and contemporary art world such as Yves Klein (leader of the New Realism movement), Robert Rauschenberg ( avant-garde pop-art character), Andy Warhol (king of pop-art), Gerhard Richter (top German visual artist) or Jeff Koons (contemporary artist with the most expensive work on the planet-91 million USD)…
And most importantly, after the Guggenheim Museum, in Bilbao people began to eagerly hire the world's top architects to rejuvenate the city. Norman Foster, British architect famous for hi-tech style has built the entire subway line here is known as the "underground world" of glass and steel, one of the registered metro works.



In the world.
Alvaro Siza, a Postmodern Austrian architect designed a university building and an airport terminal, while the pedestrian bridge "Zubizuri" is located near the museum created by talent. Spain Salvadore Calatrava, who creates another urban magic in the famous old city of Valencia ...
And can not tell all - here, every corner of movement makes you "oh", "ah" amazed. All create a Bilbao that is both strange and strange, the old is not lost (even the abandoned old factory is turned into works), the new merging creates a new, youthful breath. Full of creative energy, an cosmopolitan city with a strong identity.




So from an industrial and polluted city, in just two decades, Bilbao had puffed up his chest.

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