Encyclopedia • Museums, collections and galleries

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.

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 20th century.

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.

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 homage to a notable nucleus

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 incorporates the mosaics of the

The palace, which overlooks the Grand Canal, was designed in 1600 by Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682), commissioned by the noble Pesaro family.

The Galleries take their name from the Accademia of Belle Arti with which they had shared the same seat until 2004.

M9 is a project of the Venice Foundation with an international scope and a newly conceived district.

The National Archaeological Museum contains an important collection of a Greek-Roman antiquities: statues, coins, cameos, ceramics, bronzes and gems.

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.

Palazzo Grassi organizes important temporary exhibitions, some of which exhibit part or all of the collection of its owner François Pinault.

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).