Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Collezione Peggy Guggenheim · Palazzo Venier dei Leoni

Picasso to Pollock in a collector's canal-side home

⚠ Closed Tuesdays

Hours

10:00–18:00 (last entry and ticket desk 17:00). Closed Tuesdays and 25 Dec

Tickets

Adults €17, over-70s €14, students under 26 €9, under-10s free. Timed tickets on guggenheim-venice.it

Address

Five minutes along the lanes from the Accademia towards the Salute; a low white palazzo on the Grand Canal

The American collector Peggy Guggenheim lived here for almost thirty years, and the house became the museum. Picasso, Kandinsky, Magritte, Dalí and Jackson Pollock hang in rooms the size of a living room, so you're close to everything. On the canal terrace stands a horse and rider with arms flung wide, and in a corner of the garden Peggy is buried alongside her dogs. After days of gilded churches, it's a breath of air.