• Info & Description

    Time: Daily; not Tue Wed-Mon 10am-6pm
    Cost: €12; concessions €7-€10; under-10s free
    Venice:

    The Peggy Guggenheim Collection features 20th-century art pieces brought together by the eccentric American heiress and collector. Housed in her former home, an 18th-century truncated palazzo in Dorsoduro, the museum displays works by Chagall, Picasso, Henry Moore and Alexander Calder.



    Guggenheim is virtually synonymous with 20th-century modernism, a maverick personality and style setter. Her collection arrived at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in 1949 from its first home in New York, where it had been since 1942. She had started collecting art just before the Second World War and her interest lay in Cubism, Surrealism and the Abstract. Paintings by Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, David Hare, Robert Motherwell and, most famously, Jackson Pollock all became part of the collection.

    Once she had relocated to Venice, Guggenheim continued to collect contemporary art until her death in 1979. The city was her great love and she herself is buried in the palazzo's garden.

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