Panama Museum of Biodiversity Photo courtesy Frank O. Gehry Assoc.

Panama has inaugurated a museum designed by the world-renowned Canadian-born architect Frank Gehry – his first in Latin America.

The Biomuseo has been built at the entrance from the Pacific ocean to the Panama Canal.

It bears Gehry’s trademark metallic curves and canopies, made famous by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in Spain.

The museum celebrates the history of the Central American isthmus as one of the world’s richest ecosystems.

The isthmus has more bird, mammal and reptile species than the United States and Canada combined.