Venice Museums

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.

Gallerie dell'Accademia

The Accademia (Gallerie dell'Accademia) is a museum gallery of pre-19th century art in Venice. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia, and to the boat landing station for the vaporetto water bus. It was originally created as an art school. More information ...

Ca' d'Oro

The Ca' d'Oro or Palazzo Santa Sofia is regarded as one of the most beautiful palazzi on the Grand Canal in Venice. One of the older palazzi, it has always been known as Ca' d'Oro (golden house) due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls. The Palazzo was built between 1428 and 1430 for the Contarini family. More 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 ...

Palazzo Mocenigo

In 1945 Palazzo Mocenigo at San Stae was bequeathed to the city by Alvise Nicolò, the last descendant of the family, to be used as a Gallery of Art, to supplement Museo Correr. In 1985 Palazzo Mocenigo was designated the seat of the Museum and Study Centre of the History of Fabrics and Costumes: it contains collections of ancient textiles and costumes. More information ...

Ca' Rezzonico

Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal. After some restoration work, the palace was adapted to serve as the Museum of Eighteenth-Century. The designers of the museum aimed to exploit the character of Ca' Rezzonico, arranging the works as if they were the palace's original furnishings. To achieve this result, numerous eighteenth-century works that belonged to the other civic museums of Venice were concentrated in Ca' Rezzonico. More information ...

Ca' Pesaro

Ca' Pesaro is a palazzo on the Grand Canal that was adapted to serve as the International Gallery of Modern Art and contains important nineteenth- and twentieth-century collections of paintings and sculptures, including masterpieces by Klimt, Chagall and remarkable works by such artists as Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse and Moore, as well as a rich selection of works by Italian artists and an important section of graphic art. More information ...

Fondazione Querini Stampalia

Fondazione Querini Stampalia, one of the most interesting cultural complexes in the city: Palazzo Querini Stampalia, the home of the Foundation of the same name created in 1868 by Count Giovanni, who died the following year without direct heirs. The Library, Museum and an area for temporary exhibitions are housed there. In the museum with its eighteenth century and neoclassical furniture, porcelain, bisque, sculpture, globes and paintings. 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.
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.

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: