The Museums of Venice

Museums, galleries, and art collections in Venice, Italy

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*** Accademia Galleries - The world's greatest collection of Venetian Old Masters—Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio... Full story

** Ca' d'Oro - The "Golden Palace" was Venice's most luxurious private palazzo, now a fine museum of exquisite paintings, sculptures, and ceramics... Full story

*** Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale) - The sumptuously decorated seat of Venetian power for 900 years, the Ducal Palace ostentatiously displays the wealth of this formerly mighty maritime republic with grand rooms saddled in Renaissance masterpieces (by Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese, etc.)—and the famous Bridge of Sighs over to the state prisons—but the best way to see it—and unlock its history—is to take the Secret Itineriaries tour of the hidden hallways, secret chambers, and prison cells (from which Casanova famously escaped) that lie secreted behind the walls and gilded frippery... Full story

** Peggy Guggenheim - Modern art in a Venetian palazzo, stuffed with such 20th century greats as Picasso, Dalí, Chagall, Miró, Mondrian, Brancusi, Duchamp, Kadinsky, Giacometti—not to mention Ms. Guggenheim's one-time hubby, Max Ernst... Full story

**Scuola Grande di San Rocco - A lay confraternity (think of its as a Renaissance gentlemen's club) decoratd in carved wood and dozens of exquisite paintings by Tintoretto.

* Ca' Rezzonico - A palatial house—and the final home of poet Robert Browning—now turned into a museum of 18th century life and arts... Full story

Ca' Pesaro - Two collections: a gallery of modern art and an Asian art museum.

Museo Civico Correr - A nice little hodgepodge of collections devoted to art (good Carpaccios), Venetian history (read: lots of paintings of ships), and the Risorgimento (Italy's 19th century unification movement). Hard to believe it's nearly always empty when, across the sqaure, St. Mark's is packed to the gills... Full story

Musuem of Glass - This small museum on the outlying island of Murano tells something of the history of Venice's famous glassblowing industry... Full story

Museo del Merletto - A museum of lace-making on the island of Burano.

Museo Ebraico - A museum of Jewish life and history in Venice in the historic Jewish Ghetto.

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This material was last updated March 2009. All information was accurate at the time.

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