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Last updated at 17:43 GMT, Thursday, 12 November 2009

Spiral museum at 50

Guggenheim Museum, NY

Join Dima and Rebecca as they talk about a most unusual arts museum building that first opened to the public in New York 50 years ago. Also, why not test your prediction skills with an exercise at the end of the programme?

This week's question: Which famous landmark do you think the programme is about? Is it

a) Rockefeller Center;
b) Guggenheim Museum or
c) Tate Gallery?

Listen out for the answer in the programme!

Listen to the programme:

Spiral museum at 50

Vocabulary from the programme:

landmark

a famous place, often a building or another structure, that's visited by many tourists

bulbous

round, looking like a bulb, or like a sphere

a curving wave that never breaks

here, a spiral

badly maimed

literally, seriously injured, deformed or crippled; here, badly presented, not showing their best, not playing to their strengths

reinvented notions

changed the understanding, created new ideas

Beaux Arts

a style of architecture inspired by the French school of the same name

a train shed

the spacious covered part of a major railway station

highly sociable

here, encouraging communication, bringing people together

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