Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Modern art museum in Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum in the Dorsoduro district of Venice, presenting over 300 works inside a single-story palazzo facing the Grand Canal. The rooms extend along a terrace overlooking the canal and include a sculpture garden at the rear of the building.
After years of collecting art in Europe and America, the American heiress purchased the unfinished building and made it her residence. Three years later, she opened her private collection to the public several afternoons per week.
Peggy Guggenheim is buried in the palazzo garden beside her dogs, and the Nasher Sculpture Garden holds outdoor sculpture behind the low Istrian stone facade. A room shows paintings by her daughter Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, and since 2013 the entrance also carries the name of the Schulhof Collection, whose 83 works have their own gallery.
The entrance sits on the land side of the palazzo, away from the Grand Canal, and leads through a small courtyard. The compact layout of the rooms allows for a visit in roughly two hours, with most galleries on a single level.
The Palazzo Venier dei Leoni remained unfinished and never reached its intended height, leaving it low and unusually wide along the canal. This incomplete state later allowed for conversion into a spacious residence with direct access to the waterside.
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