PALAZZO

For thirty years, Peggy Guggenheim lived at the palace. Her collection in the
palazzo remained available during the summers until her death in
Camposampiero, northern Italy, in 1979; she had bequeathed the palazzo
and the 300-piece collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in
1976. The foundation, then led by Peter Lawson-Johnston, took over the
palazzo and the collection in 1979 and reopened it as the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection in April 1980..

After the Foundation took control of the building in 1979, it took steps to
expand gallery space; by 1985, "all of the rooms on the main floor had been
converted into galleries ... the white Istrian stone facade and the unique canal
terrace had been restored" and a protruding arcade wing, called the
barchessa, had been rebuilt by architect Giorgio Bellavitis.[16] Since 1985,
the museum has been open year-round.[12] In 1993, apartments adjacent to
the museum were converted to a garden annex, a shop and more
galleries.[16] In 1995, the Nasher Sculpture Garden was completed,
additional exhibition rooms were added, and a café was opened.

A few years later, in 1999 and in 2000, the two neighboring properties were
acquired.[16] In 2003, a new entrance and booking office opened to cope
with the increasing number of visitors, which reached 350,000 in 2007.[17]
Since 1993, the museum has doubled in size, from 2,000 to 4,000 square
meters.[1] Since 1985, the United States has selected the foundation to
operate the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, an exhibition held every
other summer. In 1986, the foundation purchased the Palladian-style
pavilion, built in 1930. d healthy manner.