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Standing guard at the entrance to the Guggenheim Museum, Puppy is a 12.4-metre-tall West Highland White Terrier sculpture by Jeff Koons, covered in over 70,000 living flowering plants. Originally created for a 1992 exhibition in Germany, it was permanently installed in Bilbao in 1997.
Koons first exhibited Puppy outside a Baroque castle in Bad Arolsen, Germany, in 1992. The Guggenheim commissioned a permanent stainless-steel version for Bilbao, which was installed for the museum's opening in 1997. It has become one of the city's most beloved symbols.