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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 courtyard and go up to the first…

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, the Museum of Palazzo Grimani…

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 were very proud. The creations of…

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 bring the exhibition material…

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 ceiling; Tegnùe Aquarium consisting of a…

The Torcello Museum was established in 1870 thanks to Luigi Torelli - former Prefect of Venice - who bought and restored the 14th century Palazzo del Consiglio. Torelli acquired the building with the aim of making it the ideal place to house the…

Founded in 1954 at the behest of the Jewish Community of Venice , the Jewish Museum is a very unique museum and architectural complex, standing between two of the oldest Venetian synagogues. This is not a simple exhibition space but a widespread…

The museum takes its name from its last famous tenant: Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo. The eclectic Spanish artist established his studio in 1898 in one of the largest apartments that divided the Pesaro degli Orfei palace. Over time, Fortuny also…

The monumental complex Villa Pisani Museo Nazionale, owned by the state property, belongs to the category of assets defined by the Code of Cultural Heritage (Legislative Decree 42/2004), in art. 101, c. 2, lett. f), formed by a "plurality of…

On the death of Giovanni Querini Stampalia in 1869, the then scientific foundation obtained the property of Palazzo Querini Stampalia, which was the home of the deceased, as a testamentary bequest. With the Royal Decree of Vittorio Emanuele II and…

One of the 5 naval museums in Italy, for lovers of ships and more. The last captain of the Venetian Navy was Angelo Emo, to whom a funeral monument was dedicated - sculpted by Giovanni Ferrari, known as il Torretto - for having freed the seas from…

He was born on 26 September 1553 and was 77 years old. He was a man of great culture, had studied philosophy and had been appointed public historiographer, but in the end he only wrote about events from 1597 to 1604. His was a very short and bitter…