This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

For the last several months, I've been working on something with the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

It's a brand new audio tour about the history and design of a truly great work of American architecture.

Even if you've never been to the Guggenheim, you probably recognize it.

From the outside the building is a light gray spiral and inside the art is displayed on one long ramp that curves up towards a glass skylight in the ceiling.

There is no museum like it and it was made by one of my favorite architects, Frank Lloyd Wright.

What you're going to hear now is the whole audio tour.

If you're in New York City, you should try and listen to it inside the museum.

There are signs on every floor indicating where you should stop.

But if you can't make it to New York,

the tour is still really fun and works on its own.

The team at the Guggenheim were generous enough to allow me to create a different

kind of audio tour that feels like walking through the building with an extremely enthusiastic

and knowledgeable friend rather than a formal architecture professor. I hope you like it. We're going to post an

episode guide with photos on our website at 99.org so you can follow along at home.

But I think you can close your eyes and imagine and still enjoy all the stories.

Here's the first stop.

If you're in the building, start playing this in the lobby of the Rotunda.

Welcome to the Guggenheim Museum. I'm Roman Mars, the creator and host of the Design and Architecture

Podcast 99% Invisible.

The Guggenheim Museum is an architectural masterpiece made by a master of architecture, Frank Lloyd

Wright.

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