Overview

Discover Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, the newest museum in the Guggenheim family and a landmark of the Saadiyat Cultural District. Opening to the public on 11 December 2026, the museum celebrates modern and contemporary art from the 1960s to the present, with a focus on artists from West Asia, North Africa and South Asia and their global connections. The building is an attraction in itself. Designed by the late Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry and set where land meets sea, it has a gross floor area of 80,000 square metres and rises to 88 metres. Ten sculptural cones define its skyline: nine clad in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass. They link indoor and outdoor spaces while providing shade and airflow, in a design inspired by the architectural forms of the Gulf region. Inside, 28 galleries covering 11,600 square metres invite you to choose your own path through the collection, moving across time periods, geographies and themes rather than a single fixed route. A further 23,000 square metres of outdoor exhibition space in the cones and on the terraces circling the building lets you experience art in the open air, with views of the waterfront. The collection has been built since 2009 and brings together works by almost 550 artists from 86 countries, across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, film and new media. Rather than following chronology or geography alone, it highlights artistic lineages, networks and exchanges, and site-specific commissions appear throughout and around the building. Your general admission ticket lets you explore the museum at your own pace. Make a day of it: Louvre Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum, Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi and Manarat Al Saadiyat are all in the same cultural district on Saadiyat Island.