The Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT Abu Dhabi) announced that the construction of the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi will be completed in 2025, at a press conference held on Wednesday.

The museum will present a large-scale collection with a special focus on Islam, which is known to be represented in the countries of North Africa, Central and South Asia. Artists from the UAE, the Persian Gulf countries and other regions will also be represented.

The museum will be the largest and most extensive of the constellation of museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which includes the Guggenheim Museum in New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice.

Mohammed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of DCT Abu-Dhabi, said: "Guggenheim Abu-Dhabi strengthens Abu-Dhabi's position as a dynamic center of arts and culture. The outstanding Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum of World Contemporary Art in the region will present one of the main platforms for art from around the world”.

Richard Armstrong, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, said: "Today's announcement represents an important milestone in the implementation of the Guggenheim Abu-Dhabi project, a new historical museum. The Guggenheim Museum in Abu-Dhabi, located in the characteristic Frank Gehry building, will be home to an extensive and evolving collection of works of art that reveal many points of view on the global history of contemporary art.”