Peggy Guggenheim Museum

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is the second most visited museum in Venice after the Doge's Palace. It is undoubtedly one of the most important Italian museums of European and American art.

It is located on the Grand Canal, at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an unfinished building started in 1748. In addition to Peggy Guggenheim's prestigious personal collection, who lived in the palace, you can appreciate the collections of Gianni Mattioli, the temporary exhibitions, and the beautiful Nasher Sculpture Garden.

The Birth of the Guggenheim

In the mid-1900s, Guggenheim toured Europe with her collection and in 1951 exhibited it in Venice. During those years, the collection grew significantly and was in demand worldwide.
In 1969, she exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, owned by her uncle, after which she decided to donate Palazzo Venier dei Leoni with all its works to the foundation that manages the American museum.
Since 1979, the year Guggenheim passed away, the Guggenheim Foundation decided to transform Peggy's residence (Palazzo Venier dei Leoni) into one of the world's major modern art museums.

Recently, the museum has also been enriched with the prestigious Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof Collection, who donated 83 works by important contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Lucio Fontana, Sol LeWitt, Cy Twombly, Alberto Burri, Anish Kapoor, Claes Oldenburg, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns to the Guggenheim collection.