Museums
Palazzo Ducale
It is one of the symbols of Venice and a masterpiece of the Venetian Gothic. The palace was the residence of the Doge and of the Venetian magistracy, now it houses the Civic Museum of Palazzo Ducale.
San Marco 1 – 30124 Venice
Times: from 2nd November to 31th March 9am - 5pm, from 1st April to 1st November 9am - 7pm
Closed on 25th December and 1st January
Museo Correr
The Museo Correr is named after Teodoro Correr, a noble from an ancient Venetian family, careful collector. On his death he gave the city his art collection and the palace in Za’ Degolà where it was kept, besides many other objects.
San Marco, 52 – 30124 Venice
Times: from 1st April to 1st November 10am - 7pm, from 2nd November to 31th March 9am - 5pm
Closed on 25th December and 1st January
Museum of Natural History
Housed in the Fontego dei Turchi palace it was built in 1923 on the iniziative of Giorgio Silvio Coen, who displays and preserves the different scientific collections in Venice. Among them, the Giordani Soika entomological collection, the Bisacco naturalistic collection and the famous Ligabue collection stand out from the others.
Santa Croce, 1730 – 30135 Venice
The museum is now on restoration. Currently open to the public: the Ligabue Expedition Room and the Tegnue Aquarium
Tuesday - Friday 9/13, Saturday and Sunday 10/16
Closed on Mondays and on 25th December, 1st January, 1st May
Ca’ Pesaro
Cà Pesaro is a baroque marble palace facing the Grand Canal of Venice and is considered one of the most beautiful Venetian palaces. Originally designed by Baldassarre Longhena in mid-17th century, the construction was completed by Gian Antonio Gaspari in 1710. It is today the city of Venice's museum of Modern Art.
Santa Croce 2076 - 30135 Venice
Times: 10am - 5pm
Closed on Tuesdays and on 25th December, 1st January, 1st May.
Cà Rezzonico
It is one of the most famous Venetian palaces and now is the seat of the Museum of the Venetian Settecento (18th century), that houses important masterpieces by Guardi, Canaletto, Guardi, Tiepolo, Longhi and Tintoretto, besides works of art, furniture, interior furnishings.
Dorsoduro 3136 – 30123 Venice
Times: 10am - 5pm
Closed on Tuesdays and on 25th December, 1st January, 1st May.
Glass Museum
The museum has its premises in Murano, in the ancient Bishops Palace on Torcello Island. The collection are laid out chronologically and range from the 15th to twentieth century with very interesting items.
Fondamenta Giustinian, 8 – 30121 Murano
Times: :fFrom 2nd November to 31th March 10am - 5pm
From 1st April to 1st November 10am - 6pm
Closed on Wednesdays and on 25th December, 1st January, 1st May
Fortuny Museum
Venetian civic museum named after Mariano Fortuny who was interested in photography, scenography, stagecraft, textile creation and painting and that bought the ancient Gothic palace belonging to the Pesaro family to mad it his own atelier After his death, his wife gave the palace to the town council of Venice that transformed it in a place dedicated to the subjects of visual communication.
San Marco 3958 – 30124 Venice
Times: open daily from 10 am to 6 pm.
Closed on Tuesday, December 25 and January 1.
Closed from 5 May to 6 June 2009 for the preparation of the exhibition IN-FINITUM
Guggenheim Museum
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. The museum presents chiefly Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of 20th century art. The collection holds major works of Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical painting, European abstraction, avant-garde sculpture, Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism, by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni 704 Dorsoduro, I-30123 Venice
Open daily 10 am - 6 pm
Closed Tuesdays and December 25
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
It is the most important library in Venice and one of the biggest in Italy. It contains one of the most important collection of Greek, Latin and oriental manuscripts in the world.
Piazzetta San Marco 7 – 30124 Venice
Open daily from 9 am to 5 pm.
Closed from 10 to 22 August 2009