The Peggy Guggenheim Collection moved into the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni permanently in 1949.
Peggy Guggenheim purchased the unfinished palace on Venice’s Grand Canal in 1949 and made it her home and the setting for her modern-art collection. The move followed her earlier activity in London and New York, where she had promoted avant-garde artists and operated exhibition spaces.
The Venetian palace provided a permanent setting for works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, and Joan Miró. Guggenheim continued to live there and show parts of her collection to visitors.
The collection later became part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s museum network. Although the collection is commonly identified with Venice, its history includes several earlier locations and exhibitions. The 1949 date refers specifically to the move into the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, not the collection’s later public opening.