Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Full ticket

Duration

2 hours

Overview

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century created by the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979), who acquired most of her works between 1938 and 1947, in Europe and New York, thanks to the advice of friends, artists and art critics. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which includes masterpieces of Cubism, Futurism, European abstraction, Surrealism and American Abstract Expressionism, with works, among others, by Picasso, Pollock, Kandinsky, Miró, de Chirico, Dalí, is based in Venice, at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal, in what was once the home of the American patron. Opened in 1980, in addition to presenting the personal collection of Peggy Guggenheim, the museum houses the masterpieces of the Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, from the Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden and organizes important temporary exhibitions.