Museums

The cultural heritage in the museums of Venice

Venetian Museums are the jewel box that guards the complex and unique cultural heritage of Venice. All visitors will find here something interesting, as the areas covered by the museums range from Art to Natural Sciences, from Archaeology to Fashion.
Twelve of the Venetian museums are managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici of Venice, a city’s public foundation.
These are the Doge’s Palace, the Correr Museum, the Marciana Library, the National Archaeological Museum of Venice, Ca’ Rezzonico Museum, Goldoni House, Palazzo Mocenigo Museum, Ca’ Pesaro Museum (Modern Art and Oriental Art), Murano Glass Museum, the Lace Museum and the Venice Natural History Museum. People interested in visiting Venetian Museums will therefore find a convenient solution the purchase of the Museum Pass, that grants access to all of them.
A comprehensive ticket is also available for Venetian museums of Saint Mark’s square.

  • Accademia Gallery

    Accademia Gallery of Venice, the most important picture gallery of the town, provides visitors with an overview on Venetian painting, from Middle Age to XVIII century. Masterpieces by the main…

  • Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation

    Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation was founded in Venice 1899 by the City Council thanks to the legacy of Dukess Bevilacqua, who left her palace to the town with the aim…

  • Bovolo Staircase

    Bovolo Staircase is probably the most famous staircase on Venice: a cylindrical tower with open arcs, certainly the most surprising architectonical element on the facade of Contarini palace. Inspired by…

  • Ca’ d’Oro Museum

     Ca' d'Oro museum, also known as Galleria Franchetti at Ca' d'Oro, is an art museum displaying mostly pieces of art from the private collection of Baron Franchetti, who had bought…

  • Ca’ Pesaro museum

     Ca' Pesaro museum in Venice was founded in 1897, as the city's collection of modern art (in the year of the second edition of the Biennale of Art); since 1902,…

  • Ca’ Rezzonico museum

     Ca' Rezzonico museum is the museum of the Eighteenth century in Venice, born to celebrate this age of political decadence of the Republic - but at the same time an…

  • Cini Foundation

    Cini Foundation (Fondazione Giorgio Cini), on San Giorgio Maggiore island in Venice, was founded in the mid XX century by Vittorio Cini, who named it after his deceased son Giorgio.…

  • Correr Museum

    In Correr Museum on Saint Mark square, one of the most interesting museums of Venice, three routes of visit have been planned: the Neoclassical rooms, where sculptures by Canova are…

  • Doge’s Palace

    Doge's Palace, or Palazzo Ducale of Venice, is the most important and famous monument of Venice, together with Saint Mark's cathedral. Doge's palace faces Saint Mark's square and Saint Mark's…

  • Fortuny Museum

     Fortuny museum was created in 1956 by the widow of Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny (painter, scene designer and fashion designer), and contains part of its heterogeneous production: from paintings to…