The Guggenheim Museum Bilbaowhich will celebrate its 25th anniversary on October 19, is trying to recover from the consequences of the pandemic and hopes to end the year with some 840,000 visitors, when before the appearance of covid-19 it had received an average of more than one million visitors. annual visits.
In the program ETB2’s “12 Minutes”the director of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Juan Ignacio Vidartehas recognized that the pandemic has been “the moment of greatest difficulty for the art gallery in its 25 years of existence.
“It arrived unexpectedly, we were closed for three months, the capacity was reduced by around 70% and that forced us to readjust the budget and programming,” he recalled.
In this sense, he has ensured that visits are gradually recovering and that they expect to end the year with 840,000 visitors. However, he has considered “very important” recover international visitors, since, in a normal year, 70% of visitors come from outside Spain”.
As for the future Guggenheim Museum of UrdaibaiVidarte has highlighted that it is “a strategic initiative” that has been on the table since 2008, but that there is still “no date” for its construction because “in order to materialize it needs to ensure a financing structure that guarantees its sustainability” .
Regarding the 25th anniversary commemoration events, the Guggenheim director explained that they have prepared “a very ambitious programme, with exhibitions for different audiences”.
He has also pointed out that “music will have a special role” and that they will organize events outside the museum for all citizens.
Source: Eitb
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