Peggy Guggenheim Collection
What makes the Peggy Guggenheim Collection distinctive is that it grew directly out of one person’s lived collecting life on the Grand Canal. The museum is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century palace where American heiress Peggy Guggenheim lived for three decades. She first began showing her private modern collection to the public seasonally in 1951, and after her death in 1979 the collection passed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which opened it year-round in 1980. Inside, you see a carefully international mix: Italian futurists and American modernists working across Cubism, Surrealism, and abstract expressionism, along with sculptural works. …
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