Open Air Gallery, Museo Guggenheim

One of the joys of the Guggenheim experience is to take a quiet wander around the outside of the building, appreciating the extraordinary imagination behind its design and catching the different colours reflected by the titanium tiles, limestone and glass. Lying between the glass buttresses of the central atrium and Ría de Bilbao is a simple pool of water that emits at intervals a mist 'sculpture' by Fuyiko Nakaya.

Nearby on the riverbank is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, a skeletal canopy representing a spider entitled Maman, said to represent a protective embrace.

In the open area to the west of the museum a fountain sculpture fires off jets of water into the air randomly and youngsters have the time of their lives taking their chances as they leap to and fro. Beyond is a kids' playground. On the Alameda Mazarredo, the city side of the museum, is Jeff Koon's kitsch-whimsy Puppy, a 12m tall highland terrier made up of thousands of begonias. Bilbao has hung on to 'El Poop', who was supposed to be a passing attraction as part of a world tour. With the fond, deprecating humour of citizens of all tough cities, bilbaínos will tell you that El Poop came first - and then they had to build a kennel behind it…