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Punta della Dogana

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

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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The Storm by Giorgione.

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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Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca 'd'Oro

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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Cà Pesaro.

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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The facade of the building that allows access to the M9, with 13 colors in chromatic harmony with the urban context.

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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Image of the seat of the Archaeological Museum.

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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Ala Napoleonica.

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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Palazzo Grassi Museum of Modern Art

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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Cà Pesaro.

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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Burano Lace Museum.

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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Cà Rezzonico

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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The processing of the Murano glass.

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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Interior view of the museum of the spinning mill, with particular on an example of woven fabrics. - (Archive Venipedia / Bazzmann).

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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Detail of the precious polygonal spinet of the sixteenth century on display at the New Museum of Music. - (Archive Venipedia / Bazzmann)

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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Detail of the clock tower.

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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The headquarters of the Carlo Goldoni house - museum.

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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Detail of Palazzo Ducale

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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The cloister of Palazzo Grimani

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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Perfume bottles.

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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Horses in bronze.

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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La facciata del Fontego dei Tedeschi, la sede del Museo di Storia Naturale.

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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