The Advisory Board was created in 1980 as a high level international support group for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection soon after Peggy Guggenheim's death.
Its president is Peter Lawson-Johnston (Honorary Chairman of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation).
The Board meets twice a year―once in Venice and once in some other cultural capital which the Board may choose. It met, for example, in Santiago del Chile in October 2005, in Munich in October 2006, in Sibiu, Transylvania in September 2007, and in Zürich in June 2008. These meetings are the occasion for the presentation and discussion of the Collection's progress, plans and strategies, as well as for visits to exhibitions, private collections, monuments and museums.
The by-laws foresee a maximum of 60 members―with additional Honorary and Emeritus members. Sub-committees exist to manage the business of the Board and to review other issues and questions submitted to its attention: for Membership and Investment, as well as an Executive Committee whose chairman represents ex officio the Advisory Board and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Board of Trustees.
Membership of the Advisory Board is by invitation.
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