Guggenheim Abu Dhabi: Opening date, ticket prices, artists and all you need to know
Dubai: Twenty years after it was first announced, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi finally has a date, a price and a booking page. The museum opens to the public on Friday 11 December 2026, and tickets went on sale this month through its official website. It will be the largest museum in the Guggenheim network, bigger than New York, Venice and Bilbao, and the fourth institution to open in Saadiyat Cultural…
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, designed by Frank Gehry, is set to open its doors to the public on December 11, 2026. Tickets for the museum, which will be the largest in the Guggenheim network, went on sale this month through its official website. The museum will span 80,000 square meters, with 11,600 square meters of indoor gallery space and 28 galleries connected by a central atrium.
Visitors can expect an architectural experience, as the cones rising from the structure serve a functional purpose in shading the building and moving air, crucial in Abu Dhabi's hot climate. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi's collection, owned by the Abu Dhabi government, spans art from 1960 to the present, with a focus on the Gulf and wider West Asia, North Africa, and South Asia region, known as WANASA.
Key artists in the collection include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, El Anatsui, and Anish Kapoor. The museum will organize its galleries around themes such as Abstractions, Popular Culture, Land, Language, and Storytelling. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is a partnership between the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi and the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation in New York.
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