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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection occupies Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an unfinished 18th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, and holds one of Italy's most important collections of 20th-century art -- assembled not by a museum board but by one woman, the American collector Peggy Guggenheim, who lived in the palazzo itself for three decades.
Unlike Venice's older museums, the collection focuses entirely on modern movements -- Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism -- giving visitors a rare concentration of 20th-century masterpieces inside a city otherwise defined by Byzantine and Renaissance art.
The collection includes work some visitors find provocative, including Marini's sculpture in the garden -- approaching it with the same open curiosity due any modern art collection, rather than treating it as a novelty photo stop, respects both the work and the other visitors around it.
The museum charges an entry fee and is closed on Tuesdays, an unusual closing day among Venice's major museums, which more commonly close on Mondays.
The nearest vaporetto stop, Accademia or Salute depending on the route, is a short walk from the palazzo through Dorsoduro's quieter streets.