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BMW Guggenheim Lab Launches Its Worldwide Tour Today at the Guggenheim in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- The BMW Guggenheim Lab launches its worldwide tour today with the opening of its first mobile structure in Manhattan’s East Village. This public space—part urban think tank, part gathering space, part community center—offers free programs and events for visitors to explore the challenges and opportunities of today’s cities. The BMW Guggenheim Lab addresses issues of contemporary urban life through programs designed to spark curiosity and interaction, encouraging visitors to participate in the Lab’s research by generating questions, answers, ideas, and dialogue. Over the next six years, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will go through three successive cycles, each with its own theme and specially designed mobile structure. The first cycle includes New York, Berlin, and a city in Asia, and will culminate in a special