Program areas at SRGF
During 2023, the Foundation directly operated two museums: the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in new york and the peggy Guggenheim collection in venice. Both museums are open to the public, conduct virtual tours of exhibitions and provide educational texts free of charge in fullfilment of the Foundation's mission. The Guggenheim museum was open to the public one evening of each week on a pay-what-you-wish basis. Children under the age of 12 are admitted for free. (continued on schedule o).
The Foundation's education and public programming departments engaged the general public through numerous programs for school, youth, family and adult audiences that included guided audio tours (free with admission), the gallery guide program, weekly family programs, film screenings, courses, lectures, symposia, performances and other programs. Family programs include Guggenheim museusm tours and art making workshops. The Guggenheim for all programming aims to provide a developmentally sound museum experience and art-making opportunity for students on the autism spectrum. The Foundation continued to offer adult, university and k-12 student on-site and virtual tours where on-site tours are free for nyc public school students. (continued on schedule o)
As part of its mission, the Foundation collects and preserves art for the benefit of the public in several ways. The Foundation studies the art in the Foundation's possession and plans international exhibitions for public viewing. The Foundation also lends many of the works of art in its collection to other museums on the occasion of special exhibitions that are of scholarly merit or that will broaden the public's appreciation of art. The Foundation maintains extensive climate-controlled, highly secure storage facilities for the art in its collection. It also operates a photography studio for the documentation of art and archives to store photographs of art and make them available to the public for publication or study. (continued on schedule o)
Disseminating current scholarship and promoting learning are the primary goals of the many exhibition and collection catalogues produced by the Foundation. Publications present scholarly and instructive art historical information in the form of essays that contextualize art within larger movements or disciplines; in-depth discussions of individual artworks; interviews with artists and reference tools such as bibliographies, biographies, chronologies, and exhibition histories. Publications in 2023 included only the young: experimental art in korea: 1960s - 1970s; going dark: the contemporary figure at the edge of visibility; and sarah sze: timelapse. Significant exhibition, collections, education, audio, video, and catalogues archives content is available to the public, free of charge, on guggenheim.org including more than 1,920 artworks by more than 700 artists in the collection online. In 2023 the Foundation published 9 videos and 156 audio tracks, bringing the total videos available on the site to nearly 630 and audio tracks to approximately 1,500. Additionally, in 2023, the Foundation published 17 blog posts that provide insights into exhibitions, contemporary art, global culture, and museum archives and history, bringing the total number available online to approximately 1,200. In 2023, guggenheim.org had approximately 3,880,000 user sessions, 2,537,300 users and 21,641,800 page views. The Guggenheim digital guide, available on the bloomberg connects app, has provided deep engagement for diverse audiences with the Guggenheim museum's modern and contemporary art, in the museum and at home. The downloadable app was used more than 70,650 times by more than 37,220 people in 2023.