Which Venetian district contains the Peggy Guggenheim Collection?

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is in Venice’s Dorsoduro district.

The collection occupies Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal. Peggy Guggenheim lived there and displayed her modern-art collection, which includes works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Wassily Kandinsky. The site became a museum open to the public after her death.

Dorsoduro is one of Venice’s historic sestieri, or districts. It includes important cultural institutions and landmarks, making the collection part of a dense art and architecture area rather than an isolated suburban museum campus.

San Marco is the district most commonly associated with Venice’s best-known tourist landmarks, including St Mark’s Square. That makes it a plausible mix-up, but Palazzo Venier dei Leoni and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection are located in Dorsoduro.