Peggy Guggenheim Collection

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 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.

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