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MUSEUMS and EXHIBITIONS
in VENICE

"Of all the places where the Carnival
Was most facetious in the days of yore,
For dance, and song , and serenade, and ball,
And masque, and mime, and mystery, and more
Than I have time to tell now, or at all,
Venice the bell from every city bore,
and at the moment when I fix my story,
That sea-born city was in all her glory"

from "Beppo", Lord George Byron

Marvellous example of Gothic architecture! It was builded with the materials imported from the colonies of the Venetian Republic but during the Renaissance the building had been changed with the construction of the impressing "Giants Stair", maded by Antonio Rizzo or with the Lombardo's decorations. It resumes one thousand years of hystory and it had been the center of the executive and legal power as the "Sala del Maggior Consiglio" , "Sala del Senato" and the "Sala del Collegio" testify. It's possible to see the famous paintings by Tintoretto, Tiziano and Veronese and take a tour of the ancient prisons where Casanova "lived" for some years before escaping (it says he drank a cup of coffè at Floriàn Caffè before leaving Venice).

Opening hours: Daily 9.00-17.30.
Ticket: L. 17.000/10.000 e L. 6.000 for children. The same ticket is valid for Museo Correr as well.
Phone: 041-5224951

1, San Marco square- Venice

San Marco square- Venice

Built again "where and how it was" after its collapse in 1902 (this had been the will of the population of Venice).
Even the "Loggetta del Sansovino" was destroied and rebuilt in 1904.
Bell tower is an important occasion to admire Venice and the evocative view composed of little islands. We suggest to go up when the hours change, just in time to hear "well" the bells.

Opening hours: Daily from 9,30 to 18,30.
Ticket: L. 6.000/3.000.
Phone: 041-5224064.

It's certainly the symbol of Venice, with more than two square kilometers of beautiful mosaics, it contains inestimable treasures as the "Pala d'Oro", masterpiece of Gothic-Byzantine goldsmith's art, precious glasses, amphoras, cups and the liturgical vestments. Recently it's been done the restoration of the marvellous multicoloured marbles inside the church.

Opening hours: Working days, 10.00-17.00; Saturday and Sunday 13.00/17.00.
Ticket: To visit the Pala d'Oro L. 3.000/1.500; to the treasure L. 4.000/2.000.
Phone: 041-5225697.

San Marco square- Venice

This museums keeps the original copy of the bronze horses that one time was situated outside of the basilica of S.Marco and the "blanket" used to cover the Pala d'oro, made by Paolo Veneziano in the XIV century, during the working days.

Opening hours: Daily from 10.00 to 17.00.
Ticket: L. 3.000/1.500.
Phone: 041-5225697.

Il museo Correr is entirely dedicated to Venice, its political and military history as one of the seafaring Repubblic and its presence in every line of the art. Through the rooms of Napoleonic Wing and those of Procuratie Nuove, it winds a street touching sculpture, navigation, trades of the past.

Opening hours: Daily from 9.00 to 18.00.
Ticket: L. 17.000/10.000. The same ticket is valid to enter into Palazzo Ducale.
Phone: 041-5225625.

52, San Marco square- Napoleonic wing - Venice

3932, Cannaregio - Venice

Once upon the time was considered one of the most sumptuous buildings of Venice for the beautiful colours of its facade, Ca' D'oro knew an unlucky period becouse of several restorations maded during five centuries of history, until the moment that baron Giorgio Franchetti bought it at the end of XIX century to do an art gallery.
Inside it's possible to admire masterpieces by Mantegna, Diana and Carpaccio. Besides there are many paintings of Flemish school and what remain of the decorations that one time made beautiful the facades of the buildings near the "Canal Grande" (main channel of Venice).
Downstairs, in the backyard it's possible to see the well by Bartolomeo Da Bon, a masterpiece of the 1427 maded with red marble of Verona.

Opening hours: Daily: 9.00/13.00.
Ticket: L. 4.000; free entrance for young people under 18 and adults over 60 years and for foreign visitors under 12 years.
Phone: 041-5238790.

It's the Center of history of the Fabric and Costume, offer several dresses and accessories of marvellous tailoring.
Wallking inside, don't lose the beautiful marbles that embellish this building where once used to celebrate the life the sublime english poet Lord Byron.

Opening hours: 8.30/13.30 from Tuesday to Thursday.
Ticket:
Phone: 041-721798

1992, San Stae - Santa Croce - Venice

2148, Riva degli Schiavoni - Castello - Venice

During the Serenissima Republic, in the day of Sensa (Ascension) the cruising ship of Venetian Navy ( il Bucintoro) escorted the Doge (head of Republic) in tha lagoon celebrating the rite of the wedding among the City and the Sea. Naval Historycal Museum keeps a copy of this marvellous ship and some gondolas and many other treasures of the ancient seafaring Republics.

Opening hours: 8.30/13.30 only on working days.
Ticket: L. 2.000.
Phone: 041-5200276.

An unfailing path to understand the history of evolution, from the creation of the species to the appearance of the man.
The collection of fossils is embellished with the presence of an entire skeleton of dinosaur.

Opening hours:
Ticket:
Phone:

1730, Santa Croce - Venice

Archaeological Museum of Venice keeps an important collection of Greek and Roman sculpture including several Greek originals from the classic period that once gave importance to the collections of noble venetian families active in the antique dealer market of the colonies.

Opening hours: Daily from 9.00 to14.00.
Ticket: L. 4.000.
Phone: 041-5225978.

52, Piazzetta San Marco - Venice

2076, Santa Croce - Venice

A really important collection of oriental art (japanese, chinese, indonesian) owned by Enrico di Borbone who collected all this works travelling in the eastern countries.
The japanese section shines in particular way for the presence of blades.

Opening hours: 9.00/17.00, closed on Monday.
Ticket: L. 4.000.
Phone: 041-5238790

Accademy of Venice is one of the most prestigious of Italy, keeps paintings of Venetian school since the Middle Age to masters of the Renaissance with masterpieces by Bellini, Tiziano, Giorgione, Tintoretto, Veronese... until the painters of the eighteenth century, the Tiepolo, pastels by Rosalba Carriera and the inside scenes by Longhi.
Only Tuesday and for a small period of time (15-16 ; 16,30-17,30) Accademia gives the possibility to visit the deposits at the last floor of the monastery builded by Palladio.

Opening hours: Closed on 25 of December, first of January and first of May. Open from 9.00 to 19.00 ( Sunday and Monday it closes at 14.00).
Ticket: L. 12.000 (free entrance for under 18's and adults over 60's).
Phone: 041-713487.

1050, Dorsoduro -Venice

All the reviews of this section are written by Cristina Beltrami.

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