In 1980 he opened in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, the Peggy Guggenheim under the management of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim had given both the palace that the collection.
The monumental complex of the Art Galleries in Accademia now occupies the prestigious center of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carita, one of the oldest secular brotherhoods in the city.