Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Venice, Italy

Modern art collection on the Grand Canal. One of the most visited attractions in Venice

About the Guggenheim Collection

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, located in her former home, is a collection of some of the most important European and American art of the twentieth century

Exterior of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Museum

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection – a modern art museum on the Grand Canal – is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century palace, which was the home of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades. She began displaying her private collection of modern artworks to the public seasonally in 1951.

The Collection

The collection includes works of prominent Italian futurists and American modernists working in such genres as Cubism, Surrealism and abstract expressionism. Artists include Picasso, Magritte, Severini, Dalí, Miró, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Gorky, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian and many more.

Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) came to Venice in the 1940s where she created this world class art collection.

Guggenheim Collection Page Index

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Albert Gleizes, 1914, Woman with Animals, Guggenheim, Venice

Page Index for Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

1. Guggenheim Venice opening times and ticket information

2. How to get to the Guggenheim Museum

3. About Peggy Guggenheim

4. Artworks not to miss in the museum

5. Guggenheim tickets & Vivaldi’s Four Seasons concert

6. Nearby Venice Atractions

Guggenheim Collection Opening Times & Tickets

	Opening Hours Open Daily 10 am–6 pm
	Closed on Tuesdays and December 25 The ticket office closes at 5 pm
	The Museum recommends buying online to book
	No large luggage items
	Wear appropriate clothing. Admission will be denied to anyone who is shirtless, wearing swimwear, or barefoot.
	Yes, you can take photographs in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice for personal, non-commercial use. Flash photography is strictly prohibited as is the use of tripods, monopods, and selfie sticks.
	Audio guide to the artworks available in the museum
	You should allow between 1 and 2 hours for your visit to the museum

Transport & Travel to the Guggenheim Collection

Jean-Metzinger,-1911–1912,-Au-Vélodrome, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Vaporetto Stop & Walking Information

	Walking From Times Accademia Gallery, 5 minutes *All times approximate
	Nearest Waterbus Vaporetto Stop Accademia – 3 mins / Salute – 3 mins
	Vaporetto Tickets Buy vaporetto/waterbus tickets ➤ View vaporetto timetables & maps ➤
	Google Map Location
	Tip Make a day of it with a trip to the Accademia Gallery which is close by

About Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy Guggenheim in 1937
By archives familiales – 1937, dédicace personnelle, archives familiales, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection you can discover the most important museum of European and American art of the twentieth century in Italy.

Peggy Guggenheim was born in New York on August 26, 1898. Her family had created a fortune in the late nineteenth century from the mining and smelting of metals.

In April 1912, Peggy’s father died on the SS Titanic during its maiden voyage from England to the United States.

Peggy was an avid collector of art and prefering Europe to America, decided that Venice is where her life would be.

I dedicated myself to my collection. A collection means hard work. It was what I wanted to do and I made it my life’s work. I am not an art collector. I am a museum.
– Peggy Guggenheim

Artworks Not to Miss

Kandinsky – Upward, Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Pictures to see in the Guggenheim, Venice

	René Magritte The Empire of Light (1950)
	Jackson Pollock Alchemy (1947)
	Marino Marini The Angel of the City (1948)
	Wassily Kandinsky Upward (1929)
	Salvador Dalí Birth of Liquid Desires (1931-1932)
	Giorgio de Chirico The Nostalgia of the Poet (1914)
	Umberto Boccioni Dynamism of a Speeding Horse
	Marcel Duchamp Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train

Guggenheim Ticket & Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Peggy Guggenheim Collection + Venice: Vivaldi “Four Seasons” Concert

Take advantage of this double ticket to see the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (with a skip-the-line ticket) and view the many works of art inside plus and attend a Vivaldi “Four Seasons” Concert in Vivaldi’s own church, Sant Maria della Pieta.

The concert is performed by I Virtuosi Italiani and comes highly rated.

	Skip-the-line entry to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
	Vivaldi’s Four Seasons concert at the Church of S. Maria della Pietà, or della Visitazione is also known as the “Church of Vivaldi”. Performed by I Virtuosi Italiani,.