19 June 2025
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao receives the Getty Art and Sustainability Fellows program
This project is made possible with support from Getty through its The Getty Global Art and Sustainability Fellows program
- Over the next six years, the Museum will have three qualified professionals to support and boost its environmental sustainability initiatives thanks to the Getty Global Art and Sustainability Fellows program.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has been awarded an Art and Sustainability Fellowship by the prestigious LA-based Getty institution, which aims to support cultural and scientific organizations that are leading international conversations about climate change and environmental management.
Thanks to this fellowship, three qualified professionals will join the Museum’s team to help galvanize the institution’s environmental management priorities over two-year periods over the next six years. At the same time, the experience at the Museum will give these individuals an opportunity to acquire additional expertise in implementing practical solutions to the climate crisis in the specific field of artistic and cultural management.
In addition to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Getty has chosen another fourteen organizations from six different continents for this program, all leaders with a strong commitment to environmental sustainability: the Academy of Athens (Greece), Bibliothèque nationale (France), James Cook University (Australia), Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Brazil), Rochester Institute of Technology (United States), Singapore Art Museum with the National Gallery (Singapore), University College London’s Institute for Sustainable Heritage (United Kingdom), and the Photosynthesis networked artist residency program at Denniston Hill (United States), LUMA Arles (France), Pivô (Brazil), Srihatta-Samdani Art Centre & Sculpture Park (Bangladesh), Tate St Ives (United Kingdom), and The Mothership (Morocco).
Committed to environmental sustainability
This project is the latest expression of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s commitment to sustainability, building on several other recent and ambitious initiatives to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
For instance, this June the Museum became a founding member of Culture for the Planet, a global community whose goal is to empower the arts and culture in order to accelerate the sustainability transition; it renewed its status as an active member of the Gallery Climate Coalition-GCC this year; the carbon footprint of all Museum operations is being measured for the first time in 2025; a dynamic lighting program, slated for completion in the last quarter of the year, will maximize the use of natural light via the building’s original skylights; and Arts of the Earth, a major exhibition sponsored by Iberdrola that posits an international reflection on the environment, will open at the end of the year.
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