Institutions / Private origins, public encounters
A home, a foundation, a museum: three different settings for a collection to enter public life.
Venice, Italy
A domestic setting can retain the intimacy of a collector’s choices. Guggenheim’s former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, gives her modern art collection a setting inseparable from her life in Venice.
Read the institutional historyRiehen, Switzerland
Ernst and Hildy Beyeler’s collection became publicly accessible here in 1997. Their story raises a lasting question: how can a museum retain the focus of a personal collection while opening it to new audiences?
Read the institutional historyThessaloniki, Greece
The museum combines preservation with study, publication and international exchange. Its collection offers a route into the experimental art of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Read the institutional historyAn editorial perspective
A visitor needs a way into the story, too: clear labels, accessible records and the freedom to ask where an object came from.
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