The personal art collections of heiress Peggy Guggenheim are housed in her former home alongside the Grand Canal, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni.
Although most of Italy's great art museums are filled with masters of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, this one concentrates on American and European art from the first half of the 20th century.
The low building, with its spare, white interior, is a fitting venue for these bold and often dramatic works, which represent Cubist, Futurist, Abstract Expressionist, Surrealist, and avant-garde schools of painting and sculpture.
