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On 27 September in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with Director of the Solomon R.Guggenheim Foundation Thomas Krens.

While discussing a project to establish a common centre of the Guggenheim Foundation, the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg and the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre in Vilnius, P.Vaitiekūnas pointed out that Vilnius was going to become the European Capital of Culture in 2009.

“Since old times Vilnius is famous for its tolerance and amicable cohabitation of diverse cultures, therefore, it is an especially suitable location for such a project,” said P.Vaitiekūnas.

In Minister’s opinion, this project which is important for our country will be implemented successfully.

The Director of the Guggenheim Foundation informed that a delegation of the foundation is to arrive in the beginning of October in Vilnius, where they will discuss further implementation of the project with the City Municipality.

The Guggenheim Museum in New York was opened to the public in 1959. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was founded in the Spanish Basque Province in 1997. The same year the Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank opened a Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin gallery, situated on Unter den Linden in Germany.

In 2001 the state-of-the-art Guggenheim Hermitage Museum was built in Las Vegas, Nevada, which exhibits masterpieces from collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg. Currently the Guggenheim Foundation is promoting cooperation projects in Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates, and China.