Venice Civic Museums
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In Venice there are many museums, some of them are managed by Musei Civici Veneziani that brings together museums and collections of immense artistic and historical importance. MCV is responsible for providing various cultural services and, at an institutional level, for overseeing the conservation, study and promotion of the city’s vast cultural and artistic heritage, thus contributing to the city’s sense of identity.
For information about the Venetian Civic Museums please write to mkt.musei@comune.venezia.it
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Ca' Pesaro - Modem Art International Gallery
Santa Croce 2070 30125 Venice Tel. +39 041 524069 Fax. +39 0415241075 |
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The museum layout takes the visitor through the rooms of the various floors, with an ample selection of clothing, garments and other accessories which are part of the permanent collection; the Mestrovich Collection, including works by such artists as Jacopo Tintoretto and Bonifacio de Pitati.
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Casa di Carlo Goldoni was built in the fifteenth century and has maintained all the features of Venetian Gothic architecture of that period. The building housed a small museum of Goldoni memorabilia and artefacts relating to Venetian theatre, but focused primarily on its role as a study centre, with constant additions to its library and archive.
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Museo Correr San Marco 52 30124 Venice Tel. +39 041 2405211 Fax +39 041 5200935 |
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The site had previously been occupied by the Church of San Geminiano. It is in deliberate contraposition to the old Doge’s Palace. This residence of kings and emperors was the expression of a desire to open up a new chapter in the history of Venice. The Museum is laid out in various sections that offer a fascinating insight into the Art and History of Venice.
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Lace Museum - Museo del Merletto Piazza Galuppi 187 30012 Burano Tel. +39 041 730034 Fax +39 041 735471 |
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The museum, which opened in 1981, is situated in the old Lace-School of Burano, founded in 1871. The aim is to revitalize a centuries-old tradition. The archives of the old School, full of important documents and drawings, were re-ordered and catalogued. It contains many valuable pieces of the School's rich collection, together with important examples of Venetian products from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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Glass Museum Fondamenta Giustinian 8 30121 Murano Tel. Fax. +39 041 739586 |
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The palace was the ancient residence of the bishops of Torcello. The collection are laid out chronologically on the first floor of the Museum. Starting from an archaeological section(ground floor), which contains noteworthy Roman works dating from the 1st-3rd centuries AD, it then progresses to the largest historical collection of Murano glass in the world, with pieces dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, many of them world-famous masterpieces.
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Museum of Natural History Santa Croce 1730 30125 Venice Tel. +39 041 2750206 Fax. +39 041 7210000 |
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The Museum is housed in the Fondego dei Turchi, initially built as a palazzo for the Pesaro family in the 13th century (after changing hands several times) eventually became the fondego for Turkish merchants in the city (the place where they were expected to live and do their business). It was used for this purpose right up until 1838, and then from 1865 onwards underwent extensive restoration work. Thereafter it housed the Correr Museum and, later, the Natural History Museum.
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Palazzo Fortuny Museum San Marco 3780 30124 Venice Tel. +39 041 5200995 Fax +39 041 5223088 |
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Mariano Fortuny converted this grand Gothic palace which belonged to the Pesaro family into a comprehensive studio for painting, photography, set design and the creation of fabrics. The collections within the museum comprise an extensive number of pieces and materials which reflect the various fields investigated in the artist’s work: painting, light, photography, fabrics and clothes design.
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Doge's Palace - Palazzo Ducale
San Marco 1 30124 Venice Entrance for the public: Porta del Frumento, Piazzetta San Marco Tel. +39 041 2715911 Fax +39 041 5285028 |
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A masterpiece of Gothic Architecture, the Doge’s Palace is an accumulation of building work and ornamentation, comprising the original foundations, the fourteenth/fifteenth-century structure, sizeable Renaissance additions and opulent Mannerist details. The visit to the upper floors starts in the extraordinary courtyard, from where you pass up to the Loggia on the first floor (where the Doge’s Apartments are located) and then to the Institutional Chambers, which are spread over the first and second floor. The visit concludes with the Palace Armoury and Prisons.
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The palazzo was the residence from the 17th century of the San Stae branch of the Mocenigo family, one of the most important families of the Venetian patriciate. It is a large building of gothic origin. The collection is laid out in the rooms of the first piano nobile of the palazzo, with an ample selection of garments and accessories that illustrate changing tastes in both fashion and furnishings, underlining analogies in colour, line and decorative motif between these two related areas of design. Mainly of Venetian origin.
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The Moors’ Clock Tower marks both a juncture and a division between the various architectural components of St. Mark’s Square, the seat of political and religious power but also a public space and an area of economic activity, a zone that looked out towards the sea and also played a functional role as a hub for the entire layout of the city. The Tower and its large Astronomical Clock, a masterpiece of technology and engineering, form an essential part of the very image of Venice. For more than five hundred years, they have measured out the flow of life and history within the city.
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