Editing Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (section)

==History==
===Founding===
In 1991, the [[Basque Government]] suggested to the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation]] that it would fund a Guggenheim museum to be built in [[Bilbao]]'s decrepit port area, once the city's main source of income.<ref name="Templer">{{Cite web |date=1999-10-05 |title=Frank Gehry |url=https://www.salon.com/1999/10/05/gehry/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref><ref name="ArchBilbao">{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/about-us |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Security">{{Cite web |title=CNN – Security tight before Guggenheim Museum opens in Basque city – Oct. 18, 1997 |url=http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9710/18/spain.guggenheim/index.html?_s=PM:WORLD |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.cnn.com}}</ref> The Basque government agreed to cover the US$100 million construction cost, to create a US$50 million acquisitions fund, to pay a one-time US$20 million fee to the Guggenheim and to subsidize the museum's US$12 million annual budget. In exchange, the foundation agreed to manage the institution, rotate parts of its permanent collection through the Bilbao museum and organize temporary exhibitions.<ref name="Riding1">{{Cite news |last=Riding |first=Alan |date=1997-06-24 |title=A Gleaming New Guggenheim for Grimy Bilbao |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/24/arts/a-gleaming-new-guggenheim-for-grimy-bilbao.html |access-date=2023-07-22 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

The museum was built by [[Ferrovial]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ferrovial.com/en/index.asp?MP=14&MS=254&MN=3|title=Ferrovial history|access-date=1 December 2007|archive-date=6 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806160420/http://www.ferrovial.com/en/index.asp?MP=14&MS=254&MN=3|url-status=dead}}</ref> at a cost of US$89 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ouroussoff |first=Nicolai |date=1997-06-02 |title=The Architect's New Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Emerges as a Testament to One Man's Optimism Amid a Landscape of Industrial Decay |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-02-ca-64765-story.html |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> About 5,000 residents of Bilbao attended a preopening extravaganza outside the museum on the night preceding the official opening, featuring an outdoor light show and concerts. On 18 October 1997 the museum was opened by [[Juan Carlos I of Spain]].<ref name=Security/>
On the 13 October, two [[Euskadi Ta Askatasuna|ETA]] militants shot dead a [[Ertzaintza|Basque policeman]] who interrupted their attempt to set up grenade launchers to attack the opening.
<ref name="Igea">{{cite news |last1=Igea |first1=Octavio |title=Homenaje al ertzaina asesinado por ETA en el Guggenheim: "Se han olvidado de Txema" |url=https://www.diariovasco.com/politica/homenaje-ertzaina-asesinado-20171013155407-nt.html |access-date=31 May 2022 |work=El Diario Vasco |date=13 October 2017 |location=Bilbao |language=es}}</ref>

===Urdaibai expansion===
In 2008, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao announced that it was looking into building a {{convert|53800|sqft|m2|abbr=on|order=flip}} expansion in [[Urdaibai estuary|Urdaibai]], an estuary to the east of Bilbao. By 2022, the government of the [[Biscay]] province presented plans to put €40 million toward the expansion.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Greenberger |first=Alex |date=2022-07-29 |title=Guggenheim's Long-Awaited Expansion to Spanish Nature Reserve Moves Closer to Becoming a Reality |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/guggenheim-urdaibai-biscay-funding-guernica-murueta-1234635520/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>