Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEAbu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism named 11 December 2026 in a joint announcement with the Guggenheim[1] Foundation in late July 2026; the foundation's own press release carries the date.
Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.
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