African Art Takes Centre Stage at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

African Art Takes Centre Stage at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

On 28 July 2026, Abu Dhabi announced that the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi would open its doors on 11 December. Twenty years after Frank Gehry first conceived it, the museum will open on Saadiyat Island, becoming the largest of the four sites in the global Guggenheim network. The announcement marks the culmination of a cultural project of rare scale: in under a decade, Abu Dhabi will have built one of the densest museum districts on the planet across 27…