Guggenheim Foundation Looks Into Building Its Next Museum in Helsinki

Recession? What recession? Despite having some stumbles along the way last year, from being denied the option to build their own food kiosk to having their finances pried into by the newspaper, things are apparently going pretty well for the Guggenheim Foundation. Yesterday in Helsinki, the city’s mayor announced that they would be working with the Guggenheim in the hopes of installing a new Foundation museum (pdf). The commissioned study will reportedly take most of 2011 to complete, looking into “topics including the possible mission and structure of an innovative, multidisciplinary art museum in Finland” and “the form that its exhibition and education programs might take,” as well as other factors (including, of course, what sort of “economic impact” it will have for the Guggenheim).