Peggy Guggenheim Museum is located on the Grand Canal in the Dorosoduro sestiere. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni , an 18th-century palace, which was the home of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades. She began displaying her private collection to the public seasonally in 1951. After her death in 1979, it passed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which opened the collection year-round from 1980.
The collection includes works of prominent Italian futurists and American modernists working in such genres as Cubism, Surrealism, and abstract expressionism. It also includes sculptural works.
Peggy Guggenheim was a former wife of artist Max Ernst and a niece of the mining magnate, Solomon R. Guggenheim.. She collected the artworks mostly between 1938 and 1946, buying works in Europe as World War II began, and later in the USA, where she discovered the talent of Jackson Pollock among others. The museum houses an impressive selection of modern art. Its picturesque setting and well-respected collection attract some 400,000 visitors per year, making it the most-visited site in Venice after the Doge's Palace.
The garden on the Grand Canal and in the courtyard also host works of art and with a new addition of a building houses a space for merchandise sales and restaurant.
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