Wellbeing

DESCUBRE

Art is essential; it improves your wellbeing and connects you to the meaning of life. Also, it shows you subjects, people, moments, historical contexts and current situations, and ways of doing things that may be similar to or different from yours. Visiting an art museum can improve your wellbeing, making you feel calm and connected. It reduces stress, helps fight isolation and loneliness, and it can be a rewarding experience, adding meaning and wholeness to your life. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao offers the perfect setting to become aware of what goes on around and inside you. Take a longer look at our works of art, mindfully and carefully. Explore the Museum’s galleries and architecture, and the feelings and sensations they provoke in you. Looking at a work of art reveals questions and opens your eyes, encouraging you to be independent, to develop your own thoughts and feelings. Art strengthens your observation and thinking skills, your creativity, your courage, your ties to yourself and to others. Moreover, art museums are a safe place to delve into your emotions. You can deal with negative feelings better in art than in reality. On the other hand, you can indulge yourself in positive feelings and relationships, feeling more engaged. Recent studies suggest that visiting art museums has two complementary effects: it increases your wellbeing by boosting positive feelings and making you feel connected to people and life, and it also reduces discomfort and distress by overriding negative moods and problems, making your visit more enjoyable. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is committed to the social value of art, working with local social and therapeutic organizations to reach out to vulnerable groups to bring them these positive effects and encourage resilience and integration. Looking at a real work of art can be a unique experience. Facing a unique piece directly, without screens, relating to what an artist is trying to say, connects you to our most genuine self as a human being.