The Peggy Guggenheim Collection charges 17 EUR for adults in 2026, with reduced tickets at 14 EUR and 9 EUR and free entry for children under 10. It opens daily from 10am to 6pm and closes on Tuesdays and 25 December. The ticket office shuts at 5pm, last entrance is 5pm, and the museum starts closing at 5.50pm (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026a).
One ticket covers the permanent collection and whatever temporary exhibition is on view, in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal between the Accademia bridge and the church of Santa Maria della Salute. The museum recommends buying online and choosing an entry time slot while slots last, and it also sells tickets at the door (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026a).
The question worth settling before you buy is whether a city pass covers it. It does not. The museum belongs to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, so it sits outside the civic Museum Pass and outside every MUVE combined ticket. The discount that does apply is the Dorsoduro Museum Mile, which links this museum to three neighbours along the same mile of Dorsoduro.
How much are Peggy Guggenheim Collection tickets in 2026?
Full admission is 17 EUR. One ticket covers the permanent collection and the temporary exhibition on view, and members of the museum enter free on presentation of a Membership Card at the entrance desk, with no advance registration (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026a).
Reduced admission at 14 EUR applies to visitors over 70, to FAI, Touring Club Italiano and COOP cardholders, to holders of a Cinemapiu card, to current-season subscribers of the Teatro Stabile del Veneto, to holders of the ArtPass of the Venice International Foundation, and to anyone holding a paid ticket from one of the other Dorsoduro Museum Mile museums.
Reduced admission at 9 EUR applies to students under 26 with a current student card, to visitors aged 10 to 18, to school groups, to Rolling Venice cardholders, to members of UNESCO, IAA and AIAP, to members of ANISA and to teachers of art and art history, to members of Amici dei Musei e Monumenti Veneziani, to press without accreditation holding a current card, and to military and city police officers in uniform or with identification (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026b).
Any discounted ticket booked online has to be backed up with an identity document proving eligibility at the ticket office. An audio guide to the permanent collection and the Schulhof Collection costs 7 EUR at the ticket office, in Italian, English, French, German or Spanish, and the booking site also sells it bundled with admission.
Opening hours, the Tuesday closure and last admission
The museum opens daily from 10am to 6pm and closes on Tuesdays and on 25 December. The ticket office is open from 10am to 5pm, the last entrance is at 5pm, and closing of the museum starts at 5.50pm, so an arrival after 4.30pm leaves under an hour inside (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026a).
Buying online lets you pick an entry time slot until the slot sells out. The museum's own booking site carries a notice that entry to Venice itself was subject to the city access fee on selected days from April through July 2026, and points to the Comune's access-fee site for the current calendar (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026j). That fee is separate from museum admission.
A few door rules catch people out. Large bags, backpacks and suitcases are not allowed inside, and any item can be refused at the discretion of the security staff; the lockers are in the ticket office and are free. Food and drink cannot be consumed anywhere inside, including the garden. Admission is denied to anyone shirtless, in swimwear or barefoot. Photography is allowed for non-commercial personal use without flash unless a gallery says otherwise, and tripods and selfie sticks are prohibited. Pencils, sketchbooks and notebooks are welcome, while pens, paints and easels are not. Strollers are allowed. Service and certified therapy animals are welcome and pets are not.
Is the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Venice Museum Pass?
No. The Museum Pass is the cumulative ticket of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 50 EUR standard and 25 EUR reduced, valid six months for one admission to each site. Its published list runs to twelve civic sites, from the Doge's Palace to Ca' Rezzonico, Ca' Pesaro and the island museums. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection appears nowhere on it, and none of the four civic combined tickets reaches it either, including the 20 EUR Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art ticket (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026).
The discount that does apply is the Dorsoduro Museum Mile, a circuit launched in 2015 that runs just over a mile across Dorsoduro and links four institutions: the Gallerie dell'Accademia, the Galleria di Palazzo Cini, this museum, and Palazzo Grassi with Punta della Dogana. A paid ticket or Membership Card from any one of them earns a reduced ticket at the others for seven days (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026c).
Two of the four Mile rates are disputed between the institutions. This museum publishes 14 EUR here, 15 EUR at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, 12 EUR at the Accademia and 7 EUR at Palazzo Cini, while the Accademia's Mile page lists 17 EUR for itself and 12 EUR for Palazzo Grassi (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026a). The Accademia's tariff page prints 12 EUR, matching the figure here and sitting below its 15 EUR full price, so expect 12 EUR there (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026b). For Palazzo Grassi, ask at the desk.
Free admission on Thursday afternoons, and who else gets in free
Every Thursday from 2pm to 6pm the museum is free to residents of the City of Venice and people born in Venice, to students at Venetian universities and at vocational schools recognised by the Veneto region (the Accademia di Belle Arti, IUAV, Universita Ca' Foscari, the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, Venice International University and the Accademia Teatrale Carlo Goldoni), and to students at adult learning centres (C.P.I.A.) and Universities of the Third Age within the city. A valid identity or student card has to be shown, places are limited and booking is recommended (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026b). Visitors from elsewhere do not qualify, and the galleries are busier for it.
A longer list gets in free on any open day: children under 10, disabled visitors and one care partner, members of any Guggenheim museum with a current card, holders of a current Guggenheim Art Pass, holders of the My Special Venice Card, AAMD and ICOM members, official tour guides, members of the Venice chapter of Les Clefs d'Or, students of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the Liceo Artistico Marco Polo and the Liceo Guggenheim, and accredited press who email a request with a valid press card two working days before the visit.
Members of 21 named modern and contemporary art museums also enter free, among them MAXXI in Rome, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Castello di Rivoli, MART in Rovereto, GAMeC in Bergamo, Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan and MASI Lugano. If you hold one of those cards, carry it.
What to see: the palazzo, the barchessa and the sculpture garden
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni was commissioned by the Venier family in 1749 from Lorenzo Boschetti, whose only other known Venetian building is the church of San Barnaba. Only the first of five planned storeys was built, which is why it sits so low among its neighbours. The name probably comes from the Istrian stone lion heads at water level, and the structure behind the facade dates from a restoration after Viscountess Doris Castlerosse bought the house in 1936 (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026h).
Peggy Guggenheim bought the palazzo and garden in July 1949 and lived there thirty years. From 1951 she opened her home and collection to the public free of charge, several afternoons a week from Easter to November. She died on 23 December 1979 and her ashes are in a corner of the garden (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026i). The barchessa, the low garden pavilion she built after dropping a BBPR plan to extend the house, holds the Schulhof Collection, and the sculpture stands in the Nasher Sculpture Garden.
What hangs where changes, so check the museum's online catalogue, which marks each work on view or not on view. In early November 2026 it listed Magritte's Empire of Light (1953-54), Picasso's On the Beach (1937) and The Studio (1928), de Chirico's The Red Tower (1913), Ernst's Attirement of the Bride (1940) and Brancusi's Maiastra (ca. 1912) as on view, while Pollock's Enchanted Forest and Giacometti's Woman with Her Throat Cut were marked not on view (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026g).
Free gallery talks, and the tours the museum runs itself
Four short presentations run in the galleries or garden every open day, free with admission, no reservation, in English or Italian depending on which gallery guides are on. Peggy Talk, on her life between New York, Paris, London and Venice, runs at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Art Talk, on a different work each day, runs at 12pm, and at 4pm there is an Art Talk or a talk on the temporary exhibition. The listings give these as 10 to 15 minutes each (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026d). Attendants also answer art questions under Ask Me About the Art.
The paid option for individuals is the weekend group tour: one hour in English on the permanent collection, Saturdays and Sundays 3pm to 4pm, 10 EUR per person, free for children under 6, maximum 15 people, headphones included, booking recommended. Admission is not included, and the reservation must be shown at the ticket office 15 minutes before the start; late arrivals may not be able to join (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026f).
Private guided tours cost 95 EUR for the temporary exhibition and 135 EUR for the permanent collection with the exhibition, or 135 EUR for customised content requested a month ahead. They take a maximum of 20 people, booking is mandatory by email, 10am to 4.30pm daily except Tuesdays, and one chaperone per 15 people enters free. Admission is extra (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026e). The exhibition from 14 November 2026 to 29 March 2027 is Fucina degli Angeli: Peggy Guggenheim and 20th-Century Artistic Glass.
Getting there, step-free access and the rest of the Mile on foot
The address is Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro 701. From Piazzale Roma or Santa Lucia station, take line 2 towards the Lido to Accademia, or line 1 towards the Lido to Accademia or Salute. From Piazza San Marco, take line 2 towards P. Roma to Accademia, or line 1 towards P. Roma to Salute or Accademia (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026a). There is no entry from the Grand Canal, so arriving by private boat saves no walking (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026k).
The museum is reached by platform lifts rather than ramps. One serves the garden (seven steps), one the palazzo entrance where the permanent collection hangs (eight steps), one the Museum Bistrot (four steps) and one the temporary exhibition galleries (nine steps), the last two of those galleries and the shop inside the museum excepted. The barchessa is directly accessible from the garden, as is the shop outside the museum. Wheelchairs are free at the ticket office.
Blind and partially sighted visitors and their care partners enter free. Tactile reproductions of some works stand in the galleries, more can be requested at the ticket office, and the Doppio Senso tactile tours are free on request (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026k).
Because the museum sits between the Accademia bridge and the Salute, both the Gallerie dell'Accademia and Santa Maria della Salute are short walks along the same bank, and the Museum Mile continues to Punta della Dogana at the tip of Dorsoduro and to the Palazzo Cini Gallery at San Vio.
