Venice Travel Guide

There is a museum pass available for some of Venice's best known museums. It does not include all of them. It is already worthwhile buying it if you intend to visit the two big museums at Saint Marc Square: The Doge's Palace and Correr Museum. A more expensive pass also including some famous churches and transportation is available at the tourist information.

Peggy Guggenheim Museum

The Peggy Guggenheim Museum offers a personal collection of modern art collected by Peggy Guggenheim. Peggy was an American married to modern artist Max Ernst, and funded a number of his contemporaries. The gallery includes a sculpture garden and works by Picasso, Kandinsky, Tanguy, Duchamp, Pollock, Dali, and Mondrian. More information ...

Museo Correr

The Museo Correr is the civic museum of Venice, located in the prominent Piazza San Marco, facing the basilica of the same name that it partially occupies, and is entered by way of the Napoleonic wing of the bureaucratic buildings, or Procuratie, framing three-quarters of the piazza. Interesting collection of globes, starting from the 16th century. More information ...

• Jewish Ghetto of Venice. While racially and ethnic neighborhoods had existed prior to the Venetian Ghetto, Venice's ghetto was the first "ghetto" (coming from a Venetian word for the Iron Foundry that was on the site previously) and "ghetto" eventually came to mean any neighborhood that was made up of a single ethnic/racial group. Today, Jewish life is still very active in the ghetto, and elsewhere in Venice, and is home to five synagogues. Visiting on Saturdays (the Jewish Sabbath) will prove very fruitless because all shops, restaurants, and other Jewish places will be closed.
• The Jewish Museum (Museo Ebraico), Cannaregio 2902/b, +39 041 715 359 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , fax: +39 041 72 3007). Hours:1 June - 30 September: 10AM-7PM 1 October- 31 : 10AM-6PM The Museum is closed on Saturday (Shabbat), during Jewish festivities, on December 25th , on 1st January and on 1 May. Entrance to the Museum: Full price: € 3.00, Reduced price: € 2.00. Entrance to the Museum and Guided Tours to Synagogues: Full price: € 8.50, Reduced price: € 7.00.
• Mocenigo Palace (Palazzo Mocenigo), (vaporetto San Stae). Closed on Mondays. A collection of clothes dating from the 18th century. €4.
• Ca' Pesaro— Beautiful palace housing the gallery of modern art focusing on Italian art in the 19th Century as well as the Marco Pollo Museum, a rich collection mainly of Asian exhibits.
• Ca' Rezzonico— Museum of the 18th Century in Venice - attempts to revive the domestic atmosphere of Venetian nobilities.
• Bell tower of St. Mark's (Campanile di San Marco)— The current tower dates from 1912; an exact replica of the previous tower which collapsed in 1902. The top of the tower offers great views of Venice and the lagoon.
• Scuola grande di San Rocco— A masterpiece of Tintoretto, this guild house is an exquisite example of Manierist art in its best. In order to allow a comfortable admiration of the detailed ceiling mirrors are offered to the visitors.
• Galleria dell'Accademia di Venezia— Venice's most significant art museum which is also one of Italy's best. A must see! Regular tickets: €6,50, Reduced-price tickets: €3,25, Advanced reservation fee: €1,00.

Other Classical art museums are:

• Glass Museum (Museo del Vetro) On Murano, the island so typical of its glasswork.
• Goldoni's House (Casa Goldoni)— House of Venice' famous playwright.
• Lace Museum (Museo del Merletto).

Other museums include:

• Museo Fortuny.
• Museum of Greek Icons.
• Natural History Museum.
• Naval History Museum (Museo Storico Navale).
• Palazzo Grassi.
• Scala Contarini del Bovaro.