Peggy Guggenheim was a member of the wealthy American philanthropic Guggenheim family. She moved to Venice after the second world war and lived on the Grand Canal until she died in 1979. Her palace is now Venice's modern art museum, and is a pretty place to walk around. But the rooms where the collection is displayed are quite small and stark, and get pretty claustrophobic with the tourist crowds. So we spent more time outside admiring the view than inside admiring the art.