[Opinion] Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands Launches Campaign Against the Guggenheim Museum Expansion in Spain

Discretion and wisdom are characterizing the open process in the districts of Busturialdea and Urdaibai. And that is good news. To date more than 250 opinions have already been collected – all of them shot – on a possible expansion in this area of the Guggenheim Museum. By August they expect to have about five hundred and before the end of this exercise they have reached a thousand perceptions on this issue without losing sight of a global visio…

At a working breakfast organized on Friday morning at the Gernika Community Center, the Agirre Lehendakaria Center announced, at the request of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia...

Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands Launches Campaign Against the Guggenheim Museum Expansion in Spain

The Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands launched a campaign to protect the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve from an extension of the Guggenheim Museum, which has been trying to expand its Bilbao outpost. “A planned extension of the Guggenheim Museum into the Special Area of Conservation of the Biosphere Reserve risks undermining biodiversity, water quality, and the integrity of conservation frameworks,” a social media post explains of the situation …

The international network of Guggenheim museums is a global benchmark of contemporary culture. Based in four countries and more than a million visitors annually, these museums not only attract tourism...