Peggy Guggenheim Collection

About the museum

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is housed in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, overlooking the Grand Canal, which was the private home of the collector Peggy Guggenheim. Until her death in 1979, the house was open to the public free of charge once a week.

The museum opened in 1980 and is part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The collection is based mainly on Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection and is smaller and more focused than those of the other Guggenheim museums.

In 2012 Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof donated 83 works by major contemporary artists. In 2016 the museum acquired an additional building, which houses a café, an educational centre and storage. Among the best-known works are pieces by Picasso, Dalí, Magritte, Brâncuși, Pollock and Boccioni, as well as the sculpture “L’angelo della città” by Marino Marini in front of the Grand Canal.

Highlights

• Works by Picasso, Dalí and Magritte
• Sculptures by Brâncuși
• Paintings by Pollock
• Works by Boccioni
• “L’angelo della città” by Marino Marini
• Schulhof donation with 83 contemporary works

Permanent exhibition

• Collezione permanente – Works by Picasso, Dalí, Magritte, Brâncuși, Pollock and other leading figures of the 20th-century avant-gardes, in the rooms of Peggy Guggenheim's former home.

Founded

1980

Operated by

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Visitors per year

approx. 381,374

Admission & discounts

Free admission: Every Thursday from 14:00 to 18:00, free admission for residents and people born in Venice, students of the Venetian universities and vocational schools listed by the museum, and students of the CPIA and the Università della Terza Età of Venice; booking is recommended and a valid ID is required.

Reduced rate of €9 also for members of UNESCO, IAA, AIAP and ANISA, art and art history teachers, members of the Amici dei Musei e Monumenti Veneziani, accredited press, military personnel and municipal police, and holders of Rolling Venice. Free admission for children under 10, members of the museum and of all Guggenheim museums, ICOM and AAMD members, official tour guides and holders of the Guggenheim Art Pass. Reduced tickets bought online require a document proving entitlement to the reduction.

Accessibility

• Partially wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome
• Tactile models & exhibits
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

Platform lifts allow access to the garden, the entrance of the palace with the permanent collection, the bistrot and the temporary exhibition rooms; the last two steps of the temporary rooms and the internal shop cannot be reached by the platform. Free wheelchairs at the ticket office. Tactile reproductions of some works are displayed in the rooms, and free tactile visits can be booked. Assistance dogs are admitted.

Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Activity booklet, scavenger hunt or kids’ audio guide

Children can get the free activity booklet “La chiave della casa di Peggy Guggenheim” (The Key to Peggy Guggenheim's House) at no cost; the museum also publishes a calendar of activities for families.

Getting there & parking

From Piazzale Roma and Santa Lucia station, vaporetto 1 or 2 in the direction of the Lido; from Piazza San Marco, vaporetto 2 (direction Piazzale Roma) to Accademia, or vaporetto 1 to Salute or Accademia.

Amenities & dining

• Café
• Museum shop
• Lockers

Museum Bistrot run by AcquolinA for lunch and light meals; two museum shops, one inside and one near the entrance. Free lockers at the ticket office; large bags and suitcases are not allowed.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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