Exhibitions

Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

Venice, Italy

A house on the Grand Canal where modern art still feels personal, radical, and alive.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
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Image credit

Vasily Kandinsky Upward 1929 © Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Meet the artist

Jackson Pollock, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte

The Movement

Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Modernism

ArtLovers Tip

The museum is generally open 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, closed on Tuesdays and December 25. Last admission is at 5:00 pm. This is not a cold museum visit. It feels like entering the private world of one of the most influential collectors of the 20th century. The experience continues outside in the Nasher Sculpture Garden, where art, memory, Venice, and Peggy’s own story come together. Not a checklist museum. A must-see house of modern art in Venice.

Exhibition Highlights - What you'll see

At the heart of our museum is a simple goal: to share the extraordinary personal collection of Peggy Guggenheim and help visitors from all walks of life discover the wonder of modern art.

We invite you to explore the revolutionary movements that changed how we see the world, from the bold structures of Cubism and Futurism to the dreamlike visions of Surrealism and the powerful energy of American Abstract Expressionism.

The collection brings you face-to-face with masterpieces by the visionary artists who defined these eras, including Jean Arp, Francis Bacon, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Juan Gris, Grace Hartigan, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, René Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, Marino Marini, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Germaine Richter, Mark Rothko, Gino Severini, Yves Tanguy, and Emilio Vedova.

Beyond these modern icons, you will also find a rich selection of historic works from Africa, Oceania, and the Pre-Columbian Americas, reflecting Peggy’s wide-reaching passion for creativity across the globe.

Worth the trip

Because Venice is not only about the Renaissance. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection reminds you that the city also became a stage for the avant-garde.

During the Venice Biennale 2026, when the city is full of contemporary art, this museum is the perfect counterpoint: a place to understand where so many modern revolutions began. The Biennale Arte 2026 runs from May 9 to November 22, 2026, making Peggy Guggenheim one of the most meaningful stops during an art trip to Venice this year.

How to experience it

Don’t rush it. Go early, or later in the afternoon, and leave time for the terrace over the Grand Canal.

Start with the collection as Peggy’s autobiography: the artists she supported, loved, challenged, and helped make visible. Then move to the garden. It is one of those rare museum endings where you don’t just finish a visit — you feel the life behind the collection.

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