Visitors will enter Guggenheim Abu Dhabi through one of the cones, covered on the exterior with panes of blue glass and defined on the interior by a dynamic composition of wooden timbers.
Just off the soaring glass atrium are workshops and a 350-seat theatre, where the museum will offer a wide-ranging educational and performing-arts programme. The state-of-the-art facility will allow for a wide variety of live events including lectures, panels, symposiums, music recitals, dance and theatre productions, film viewings and performance. Galleries, many unprecedented in scale, are distributed around the
atrium on four levels connected by glass bridges above. The museum
features 13,000 square metres of gallery space in the monumental piles
of gallery boxes, and eleven iconic cone-like structures providing a
further 18,000 square metres of exhibition space.
Nine of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi’s ten cones will also be accessible from the atrium. In each of the cones, the visitor will have the opportunity to view unique, site-specific artworks by leading contemporary artists.
