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Guggenheim Collection Show in Bonn Turning Into Hit

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With some 200,000 visitors since its opening in July, The Guggenheim Collection exhibit at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn is turning out to be the kind of smash hit that organizers were hoping for. On Thursday, Federal Minister of State and Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann welcomed the exhibit’s official 200,000th visitor by presenting Ingrid Diehsel, of the small town of Sinzig outside Bonn, with a bouquet of flowers and an exhibition catalog.

More than 200 works from the Guggenheim Foundation’s five museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin and Las Vegas have been brought together in this singular exhibit organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, and the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundeskunsthalle). The exhibit is supported by Deutsche Telekom. The Bundeskunsthalle receives 16.8 million euros a year in federal funding.

The Bundeskunsthalle may be hoping for a success similar to that of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgallerie 2004 exhibit of works from New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which drew some 1.2 million visitors.

The Guggenheim Collection is open through January 7, 2007.

September 14, 2006

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