On which canal does Venice’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection stand?

Venice’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection stands on the Grand Canal.

The museum occupies Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, a low, unfinished eighteenth-century palace on the canal’s southern bank. Peggy Guggenheim purchased the palazzo in 1949 and used it as both her home and a setting for her modern-art collection.

The Grand Canal is Venice’s principal waterway, curving through the historic city before reaching the basin near Saint Mark’s Square. A canal-side location gave the collection an unusually intimate setting: visitors move from rooms containing major modern artworks into gardens and terraces overlooking the water.

The building is sometimes mistaken for a conventional grand Venetian palace because of its name, but Palazzo Venier dei Leoni is notably low compared with many neighboring palazzi. Its unfinished condition is part of its history. The collection remained associated with Peggy Guggenheim’s home after her death and became a public museum under the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.