Accessibility for Visitors with Limited Mobility

The museum can be easily reached from the "Accademia," "Salute," and "Zattere" vaporetto stops.

• The museum grants free admission to visitors with limited mobility and their carepartners.
• Wheelchairs are available, free-of-charge, at the museum's ticket office.
• Museum staff are available to facilitate the visit.
• It is not possible to access the museum directly from the Grand Canal.

The museum is accessible through platform lifts: one lift accesses the garden (seven steps); one lift allows access to the entrance of the palazzo where Peggy Guggenheim lived and where the permanent collection is on view (eight steps); one lift gives access to the museum café (four steps); another lift allows access to the temporary exhibition galleries (nine steps), except the last two and the shop inside the museum.
The museum’s barchessa (where the Schulhof Collection is on view) is directly accessible from the garden.
The shop outside the museum is directly accessible.

For more information:
+39 041 2405 440
+39 041 2405 419
visitorinfo@guggenheim-venice.it

Accessibility for Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection offers an innovative accessibility program to visitors who are blind or partially sighted: Double Meaning: a Tactile Journey through the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

As part of the program, tactile reproductions of some works on view can be found in the museum galleries. Visitors can also request additional tactile reproductions at the museum’s ticket office or consult descriptive cards for selected works, available for download in the tactile tours section.

• The museum grants free admission to visitors who are blind or visually impaired and to their carepartners.
• Service animals are welcome.

Request and reserve a free tactile tour by emailing doppiosenso@guggenheim-venice.it or calling the following numbers:
+39 041 2405 430
+39 041 2405 401

Getting there

From Piazzale Roma or Ferrovia:
Vaporetto no. 2, direction Lido, Accademia stop.
Vaporetto no. 1, direction Lido, Accademia or Salute stops.

From Piazza San Marco:
Vaporetto no. 2, direction P. Roma, Accademia stop.
Vaporetto no. 1, direction P. Roma, Salute or Accademia stops.

For further information, see the ACTV transport service website.