Guggenheim Foundation’s head of global strategies, Juan Ignacio Vidarte, announced Sunday, that plans for a Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro have been discarded. Vidarte said that the decision was made in common agreement between the Foundation and the City’s administration. Plans for the famous museum have also been halted in Mexico.
Project talks, which began in 2002, have always been highly controversial with both heavy criticism and praise from city residents and artists. The project’s planners at the time hoped that the museum would help to revitalize Rio’s Port area and bring more tourists into the city.
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