The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice has opened a conservation and restoration laboratory, a technologically advanced space that marks a turning point in the study, maintenance, and care of works collected over more than three decades by patron Peggy Guggenheim. The laboratory is the result of more than a decade of effort by the museum's Conservation Department, which has helped make the Peggy Guggenheim Collection a point of reference for the study of artistic techniques and materials used by the most important artists of the 20th century. The laboratory is distinguished by its dual character of “open lab” and “open storage”: part of its activities is visible to the public, offering visitors the opportunity to observe at close quarters the rigorous and delicate daily work of conservation while some sculptures from the collection, currently not on display, find their place here. Work currently underway in the new workshop includes restorations of a 1912 work by Robert Delaunay, a pair of works (from 1938 and 1938-39) by Piet Mondrian, and a 1946 work by Jackson Pollock.