Ethnopassion - Peggy Guggenheim's ethnic art collection 28.05 - 23.08.2008 The exhibition has been extended until 18 October Tue 14.00 - 17.00 Wed-Sat 11.00 - 17.00 Closed Sunday and Monday Admission free From 28 May Galleria Gottardo will hold the world's first exhibition of the ethnic artworks collected by one of the twentieth century's greatest art patrons: Peggy Guggenheim. The idea behind the exhibition is to display the "exotic objects" that embellished the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni during the collector's lifetime. Since her death, they have been carefully restored and examined by scientific researchers. The restoration project was jointly launched by Galleria Gottardo, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Museum of Cultures in Lugano with the aim of rediscovering the specific meaning of each object in itself and in the context in which it was purchased.