India, July 12 -- The Guggenheim Museum is among the 31 Upper East Side buildings where the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was detected, officials revealed.

The museum, at 1071 Fifth Avenue and the owners of 18 other properties have already cleaned and disinfected their tainted water-cooling towers, according to the city Department of Health, which on Friday identified all of the infected properties.

The other 12 buildings were ordered to complete the deep cleaning to eradicate the Legionella bacteria by Saturday. The Guggenheim, which has an average of 1,100 daily visitors was not ordered to shut down at any point, the DOH said. The museum told The Post Saturday it took immediate remediation steps after learning of the pres...