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Daytime view of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain. © Guggenheim
Bilbao Museum

THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
BILBAO WELCOMES
1,289,147 VISITORS ON
THE YEAR OF ITS 25TH
ANNIVERSARY

This figure attests to the Museum’s sustained success, accessibility. The Museum also launched a new digital
its function as a driving force at the regional level, platform, Guggenheim Bilbao Online, which offered
and its resilience in the face of adversity. Community, virtual tours, podcasts, videos, and interactive games
the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s program for art for online visitors. The platform reached more than 1.5
and culture lovers, had 191,576 individual members, million users from over 100 countries, expanding the
including 22,400 Museum Members - the highest number Museum’s global reach and influence. The Museum
since the Museum’s opening-, 168,497 Followers (a also received several awards and recognitions for
free way of being connected to the Museum), and 679 its excellence in management, communication, and
members of the Erdu program, offering free admission innovation. Some of them were the European Museum
to those dealing with unemployment. These numbers of the Year Award, the Best Cultural Institution Award by
reflect the Museum’s strong engagement with its the International Association of Art Critics, and the Best
audience and its commitment to social inclusion and Museum Website Award by the Webby Awards.

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