Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Punta della Dogana
In 2007 Palazzo Grassi won the competition held by the city of Venice for the creation of a new contemporary art center at Punta della Dogana. The following year, restoration work began on the area under the direction...
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Collezione Peggy Guggenheim
One of the most important Italian museums of European and American art; includes works from Cubism, Futurism, European Abstraction, Surrealism and American Abstract Expressionism, by some of the greatest artists of the...
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Ex Collezione Manfrin
Close to the fall of the Serenissima Republic, Count Girolamo Manfrin, an entrepreneur in the tobacco sector, acquired a palace in Cannaregio from the Venier family in 1787, now known as Palazzo Priuli Manfrin. In...
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Galleria di Palazzo Cini
The Galleria di Palazzo Cini was established in 1984, three years after Princess Yana Cini Alliata di Montereale, daughter of Vittorio Cini, donated part of her father's assets to the Giorgio Cini Foundation; Yana paid...
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Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro
On the ground floor of the building, near the ticket office, it is possible to visit a courtyard that contains a true well masterpiece of 1427 by the sculptor Bartolomeo Bon and in the atrium an elegant mosaic that...
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Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna Cà Pesaro
The palace, which overlooks the Grand Canal, was designed in 1600 by Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682), commissioned by the noble Pesaro family. The building was planned in a tripartite scheme, a part on the Grand...
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Gallerie dell'Accademia
The Galleries take their name from the Accademia of Belle Arti with which they had shared the same seat until 2004. They are housed in the agglomeration of: the ancient church of Santa Maria della Carità, the Scuola...
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M9 Museo del Novecento
M9 is a project of the Venice Foundation with an international scope and a newly conceived district. The Museo del Novecento is distributed in a large central area of Mestre for a total of 9 hectares distributed...
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale
The National Archaeological Museum contains an important collection of a Greek-Roman antiquities: statues, coins, cameos, ceramics, bronzes and gems. Besides this, it also contains an interesting collection of Egyptian...
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Museo Correr
The collection has been kept in St Mark’s Square since 1922, both in the Napoleonic Wing and parts of the Procuratie Nuove; the museum is accessed via the charming portico of the Palazzo. The museum derives its name...
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Museo d'Arte Moderna di Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi organizes important temporary exhibitions, some of which exhibit part or all of the collection of its owner François Pinault. In this place, which is the last building built before the fall of the...
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Museo d'Arte Orientale
The Museum represents one of the most important and consistent European collections of Japanese art of the Edo period (1600-1868) but there are also sections reserved for other Asian civilizations (China and Indonesia...
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Museo del Merletto
The museum is located in the seat of the Scuola dei Merletti di Burano, founded in 1872, inside are exhibited works of Venetian production ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century as well as precious works...
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Museo del Settecento veneziano di Ca' Rezzonico
The Rezzonico palace in 1936 was used as the seat of the Museum of the Venetian eighteenth century and the eighteenth-century works owned by the Civic Museums of Venice recured for the setting, as well as a collection...
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Museo del Vetro
The Murano Glass Museum was founded in 1861 by the Abbot Vincenzo Zanetti and the First Deputy of the Municipality, Antonio Colleoni. The project aimed to establish an archive in which all the examples illustrating the...
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Museo della Filanda
The Museo della Filanda of Salzano, inaugurated at the end of May 2016, is the result of the collaboration between public and private sectors united together to rekindle, even if only virtually, the historic...
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Museo della Musica di Palazzo Pisani
On November 19, 2016, the New Music Museum of Venice was officially inaugurated at Palazzo Pisani, home of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory. The New Museum of Music, which differs from the one housed in the Church...
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Museo della Torre dell’Orologio
Guided tours that take visitors on a journey inside Clock Tower Museum can be booked. You can visit the five-part interior by ascending the narrow and steep staircase: The first floor includes the history of...
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Museo di Casa Goldoni
The building, a typical Gothic style building, was built between the beginning of the 14th and the end of the 15th century by the Rizzo family, whose coat of arms can be found on the well inside the courtyard. Later...
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Museo di Palazzo Ducale
Currently, the entrance for visitors is the ‘Porta del Frumento’, on the side of the San Marco Lagoon. You can visit the palace by beginning on the ground floor with the Museo dell 'Opera, to then pass through the...
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Museo di Palazzo Grimani
In 1981 Palazzo Grimani was purchased by the Italian State which in 2001 entrusted it to the Special Superintendence for the Venetian Museum Complex. Following the restorations made to the building, completed in 2008,...
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Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo
This museum houses collections of textiles, costumes, clothing and accessories, most of them of Venetian origin, embellished with embroidery and lace that highlight the artisan art of the time of which the Venetians...
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Museo di San Marco
The idea of establishing a museum inside St Mark’s Basilica came to Pietro Saccardo, Proto of San Marco since 1887. The original plan of the San Marco Museum, halted after the fall of the tower in 1902, planned to...
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Museo di Storia Naturale
The Museum houses, in addition to the well-stocked scientific library, the following exhibition spaces: Cetaceans Gallery with the skeleton of a 20-meter whale and a young sperm whale suspended from the...
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