* Giant numerals, "5-0", Photo Opportunities - Take your picture sitting astride giant "5-O" sculptured numbers - part of the 50th Anniversary logo photo booth. Upload your pictures onto to the museum's flickr group. flickr.com/groups/free day/

* Anniversary Eye Tours - Interactive tours with museum educators will be offered in five languages and for partially sighted, blind, and deaf audiences.

* Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum - This 27-min. documentary explores the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum and chronicles the building's conception, construction, and critical reception.

* Family Friendly Educational Activities - From 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM, family friendly interactive activities will take place throughout the museum. Family Architecture Guides will also be distributed to children ages 12 and under.

* Story Circle - From 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM (on the hour) there will be readings of picture books including I'd Like the Goo-Gen-Heim by A.C. Hollingsworth.

* Live Twitter Tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building - From 4:30 to 5:30 PM, the Guggenheim Twitter team, museum visitors, and followers around the world will have the chance post observations during a live-Tweet conversation. Include #GUGG50 in your tweets, and visit twitter.com/Guggenheim to follow the Guggenheim on Twitter.

* The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim Anish Kapoor: Memory - Be the first to see -a major site-specific sculpture installation that weighs 24 tons by leading international artist Anish Kapoor. On view through March 28, 2010

* Harry Winston Jewels Inspired by the Guggenheim - For one-day only Guggenheim-inspired diamond jewelry will be on display in the Guggenheim
Store.

In addition the following exhibitions will be on view:
* Kandinsky September 18, 2009-January 13, 2010

* Gabriele Münter and Vasily Kandinsky, 1902-14: A Life in Photographs September 18, 2009-January 13, 2010

* Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn October 2, 2009-January 6, 2010

* Intervals: Kitty Kraus October 9, 2009-January 6, 2010

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"Eric R. Kandel, M.D., a University Professor at Columbia, is a graduate of Harvard College and N.Y.U. School of Medicine. Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. At Columbia, Kandel organized the neuroscience curriculum. He is an editor of *Principles of Neural Science*, the standard textbook in the field. He recently has written a book on the brain for the general public entitled *In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind*. Eric Kandel’s research has been concerned with the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in *Aplysia, *a sea slug*,* and mice. More recently, he has studied animal models in mice of memory disorders and mental illness. Kandel has received eighteen honorary degrees, and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He has been recognized with the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2000.

'Science Friday wants each participant to walk away with a more intimate portrait of the participating scientist and a better perspective of the variety of ways science can impact a career' says Science Friday Director of Development, Danielle M. Dana. Founded in 2003, The Science Friday Initiative is the sister non-profit organization of the award winning NPR radio show, Science Friday, hosted by Ira Flatow. One of the objectives of the Science Friday Initiative is to engage and create scientific discussion
> among adolescents and young adults."

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