| GUGGENHEIM | Peggy ___, American art collector after whom a Venice museum is named (10) |
| PEGGY | And 9 Down 20th-century American art collector after whom a museum on the Grand Canal in Venice is named (5,10) |
| PITTRIVERS | Augustus ---, archaeologist after whom an Oxford museum is named |
| SLADE | Felix, art collector after whom a London school of art was founded (5) |
| RIPLEY | One after whom a Times Square museum is named |
| ELI | Whitney for whom a Connecticut museum is named |
| VANDALISED | One's escorted outside after museum is wantonly damaged |
| POWERHOUSE | This museum is located in the former Ultimo Power Station (10) |
| IMMIGRANTS | Unfinished museum is the first to get donations from new arrivals (10) |
| EISENHOWER | President whose official library and museum is in Abilene, Kansas |
| RIALTO | Name used at times for a Milan-Venice service and a Venice-Paris service (6) |
| AGITATED | Upset a belligerent American, art patron and Democrat (8) |
| WALTON | Heiress Alice who founded Arkansas's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art |
| SANTAANA | Californian city noted for the Bowers Museum featuring Native American art (5,3) |
| VICTORIA | DELIA PROMPTED A VENICE DATE FOR BILLY AND HER IN 2016 (Y&R) |
| GOLDENRETRIEVER | Tennis ball collector, after an encounter with King Midas? |
| STMARK | Namesake of a Venice basilica |
| GONDOLALIFT | Weight training on a Venice canal? |
| OTTERSON | Jack, American art director who was nominated for eight Academy Awards (8) |
| RIVIERA | TV series, created by Neil Jordan, starring Julia Stiles as American art curator Georgina Clios (7) |