Peggy Guggenheim Museum:
This is a museum of modern art. Peggy Guggenheim, a billionaire from New York, bought the unfinished palazzo in 1949 and set up a salon in it, which soon grew into a museum of modern art.
Peggy herself remained in Venice until her death in 1979. The museum’s permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Brancusi, Kandinsky, Miro, Klee and Dalí.
In addition, there are regular and curious temporary exhibitions.
Peggy lived here for 30 years and bequeathed the house and a rich collection of paintings to the Guggenheim Foundation.
The Venice Museum (one of four owned by the foundation) contains works by the famous Cubists and Futurists, Abstract Expressionists and Surrealists: Léger, Mondrian, Miró, Dalí, Picasso, Magritte and Modigliani.
And paintings by Max Ernst, the renowned German artist and “part-time” third husband of Peggy Guggenheim.
Today, the museum hosts exhibitions by artists of the 21st century. Part of the permanent collection is traditionally housed in the garden.
In one of its corners, by the way, rests the remains of the legendary owner of the palazzo. A plaque with the names of her 14 beloved Lhasa Apso dogs can be seen next to her tombstone.
Open all days except Tuesday, 24 December, 25 December, 1 January, 1 May
