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The Bilbao effect (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao)

Year: 2007

Type: report

Abstract: When a decaying industrial city in Spain’s Basque country decided in the 1990s to spend $228.3 million on a modern art museum, critics objected to squandering so much public money on something so irrelevant and exclusive. This year is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s (GMB) tenth anniversary, sufficient time since its opening to evaluate the museum’s effectiveness in reactivating the city’s economy. So, have the public authorities that invested in the Guggenheim recovered their costly investment?

Source: Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Author: Beatríz Plaza

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Industries and Urban Development

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1525082140

Cites: 1

Cited by: 19

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