VENICE ACADEMY GALLERY

The Academy Gallery is a museum gallery in the south part of the Grand Canal. The museum is named after "Ponte dell'Accademia" for its vicinity.
It was founded in 1750 by Venetian Senate who wanted to create a school of painting, sculpture and architecture in order to make it similar to official institutions of Rome, Milan and Bologna.
In 1819 it was formalized as an institution to study art restoration. It had many important teachers like Tiepolo, Hayez, Alberto Viani, Emilio Vedova.
During the Napoleonic Emipire, many Italian works were confiscated and taken to Paris. The same thing happened with many churches and cloisters as well.

Address: Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050
Phone: 0039 041.5222247 / Fax: 0039 041.5212709

MARCIANA NATIONAL LIBRARY AND THE CORRER MUSEUM

The Library of St. Mark’s Square is the most important library in Venice and the earliest surviving public manuscript depositorie in Italy. The building was constructed in 1537.
It is also called Biblioteca Marciana, Biblioteca di San Marco, Libreria Marciana, Libreria Sansoviniana, Libreria Vecchia or Libreria di San Marco. Today it’s placed in the south of St. Mark’s Square.

CORRER MUSEUM

The Correr Museum is situated in St. Mark’s Square with the entrance from the Napoleonic wing of the building. This part of the Square was designed by Antolini, Giuseppe Soli and Lorenzo Santi. The entry of the museum not only reflects the monumental architecture of the Napoleonic period but also the neoclassical style of the Asburgo.
The art collection was donated to Venice by Teodoro Correr in 1830, and today, thanks to many more donations, constitutes the main Venetian Civic Museum.
The museum begins with the suggestive Napoleonic Wing, neoclassical Rooms which became the Venetian Royal Palace of the French Emperor, of the Asburgo and of the King of Italy. Here you can find statues and bas-reliefs by Antonio Canova. Furthermore, you’ll find a collection of the Renaissance period (works by Riccio, Roccatagliata, Campagna, Aspetti).
The second floor has masterpieces of Antonello da Messina, Carpaccio, Bellin and Lotto that are displayed to illustrate the History of Venice during its highest period of glory. The Museum of Risorgimento, the Museum Library and the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings are associated to the Correr Museum.

Correr Museum
Address: San Marco 52
Phone: 0039 041 2405211 / Fax: 0039 041 5200935
Hours: 1st of November – 31st of March 9am – 5pm / 1st of April – 31st of October 9am – 7pm / Closed on 25th of December and 1st of January

Correr Museum’s Library
Address: San Marco 54
Phone: 0039 041 2405211 / Fax: 0039 041 5200935
Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 8:30am – 1:30pm / Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30am – 7pm

How to get there: lines 41, 51 (San Zaccaria); lines 1, 82 (Vallaresso)

FORTUNY MUSEUM – CA’ PESARO

Museum Fortuny is placed in the ancient gothic palace that once belonged to the Pesaro family. It was later acquired by Mariano Fortuny who there created his own atelier of photography, set design and painting.
Museum Fortuny was donated by Municipality to the widow of Mariano in 1956.
Currently the palace is in phase of restoration; however, it’s possible to visit the first and second floors where a temporary art exhibition is placed; moreover, research studies are being carried out daily.

Address: San Marco
Phone: 0039 041 5200995 / Fax: 0039 041 5223088
How to get there: lines 41, 51 (San Zaccaria); lines 1, 82 (Vallaresso)

CA’ D’ORO

The Ca’ d’Oro, a palace overlooking the Grand Canal, represents the highest and most complete example of the typical gothic buildings; the present one is the result of several modifications made throughout the centuries.
In 1894 the palace was bought by Giorgio Facchetti, where he decided to expose his own art collection. It conserves mainly painters from Veneto and Tuscany, scultures, antique furnitures, tapestries, precious Venetian ceramics and much more.

Address: Cannaregio 30126
Phone: 041 5222349
Hours: Mondays 8:15am - 2:00pm, Tuesday - Sunday 8:15am - 7:15pm. Closed every 1st of January, 1st of May and 25th of December
How to get there: line 1 (Ca’ d’Oro)
(The ticket office closes 30 minutes before the closing of the museum)

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

Peggy Guggenheim is the most important museum of European and American contemporary art in Italy. It’s placed in "Palazzo Venier" from the XVIII° century.
It’s one of the several museums of the Salomon Peggy Guggenheim Foundation and contains mostly private collections of the owner Peggy Guggenheim.
Even if it’s not as famous as the other Guggenheim museums, here you'll find significant works by American modernists, abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Picasso, Dalì, Brancusi and Pollock.
The most remarkable work is "The Angel of the City" by Marino Marini; it’s just in front of the palace.

Address: Dorsoduro, 704
Phone: 0039 041.2405411 / Fax: 0039 041.520.6885
Hours: 10am – 6pm / Closed on Tuesdays and 25th of December
How to get there: numbers 1, 82 (Accademia or Salute)

MURANO

GLASS MUSEUM

This building was originally the residence of the bishops of Torcello. In 1659, it became the residence of Bishop Marco Giustinian who later donated the building to Torcello diocese. In those years the palace was target to several architectural modifications according to a design of Antonio Gasperi.
When the diocese was abolished, it became property of Municipality of Murano (1840). Later in 1923, the museum became part of the Venice Civic Museums. The large central room on the Grand Canal shines for its beautiful fresco by Francesco Zugno, representing the allegoric Triumph of San Lorenzo Giustinian.

Address: Fondamenta Giustinian, 8 30128, Murano.
Phone: 0039 041 739586
Hours: 1/11 – 31/03 10am – 5pm / 1/04 – 31/10 10am – 6pm / closed on Wednesdays, 25th of December, 1st of January, 1st of May.
How to get there: lines DM, 41, 42 (Murano museum)

LACE MUSEUM

The museum was founded in 1981 and it’s located in the seat of the Old Lace-School of Burano, born in 1872 on Adriana Marcello’s initiative to re-launch the secular tradition of the lace production.
The museum exposes more than one hundred different needle-laces together with very interesting historic documentation about its way of production, dating back to the XVI° and XX° centuries.
The museum offers also the pleasant opportunity to watch women, lace workers, producing beautiful laces, only in the morning.

Address: Piazza Galuppi 187 30012 Burano
Phone: 041 730034 / Fax: 041 735471
Hours: 1/11 – 31/03 10am – 4pm; 1/04 – 31/10 10am – 5pm / Closed on Tuesdays, 25th of December, 1st of January, 1st of May
How to get there: line DM (Murano Faro) then take line 1214 (Burano) / lines 41, 42, 52 (Fondamenta Nuove); line 1214 (Burano).

SANTA CROCE

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

The Natural Science Museum is hosted inside the palace of the Grand Canal "Fondaco de Turchi".

Address: Santa Croce 1730
Phone: 041 2750206; Fax: 041 721000
Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 9am – 1pm / Saturday and Sunday: 9am – 4pm / Closed on Mondays, 25th of December, 1st of January, 1st of May
Free entrance