Venice Suggestions: Gallery, houses, museums, palaces
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A few suggestions for those art lovers who may want to see what Venice can offer in terms of museums, palaces, galleries and exhibitions . The venetian art galleries we have included are teh leading names in the city, but they are far from being the only ones. Venice has always been considered one of the most important cradels of art and culture in Italy, and the city offers countless possibilities (civic museums, galleries and private collections) that visitors can make the most of by following their own taste and maybe asking our concierge for a few insider tips.
The Carlo Goldoni House
San Polo 2794 - 30125 Venezia (Venezia)
Ca' Centani, or Centanni - now better known as Casa di Carlo Goldoni - was built in the fifteenth century and has maintained all the features of Venetian Gothic architecture of that period. The particularly interesting aspects of the building are the three-part canal facade with its richly-decorated four-arched window, and the entrance giving onto Calle dei Nomboli.
TAGS : Carlo Goldoni Theatre, San polo square, FRARI church
The Civic Museum
San Marco - Venezia (Venezia)
The system of the Musei Civici Veneziani is constituted by an organic complex of buildings and collections of immense artistic and historical value. Its function is to elaborate and produce culture. At the same time its offices and services help to conserve, study and promote a great heritage, thus contributing to the city's very sense of identity.
tags : Doge's palace, Museo Correr, Clock Tower, Ca' Rezzonico, Palazzo Mocenigo, Carlo Goldoni's house, Ca' Pesaro, Fortuny palace, Museum of Natural History, glass museum, burano laces school.
The Accademia Gallery
Campo della Caritā, Dorsoduro 1050 - 30100 Venezia (Venezia)
The Accademia Galleries contain many works of art which came from churches and schools and from public offices of authority. Visit the art collections, for only in this way can the visitor fully understand how and why the painters adopted certain solutions based on the destination of a painting and its meaning.
TAGS : venetian masks, coloured paintful masks, old antiques masks
The Museum of Natural History
Santa Croce 1730 - 30125 Venezia (Venezia)
This building contain together the various scientific collections already existing within the city: at the Correr Museum, the Istituto Veneto di Scienza, Lettere ed Arti, the private collection of Count Alessandro Pericle Ninni and other smaller collections. Discover the site of this Museum.
TAGS : natural history and science,
The Grassi Palace
San Samuele - San Marco 3231 - 30124 Venezia (Venezia)
The Grassi Palace, an 18th century palace which has undergone several renovations by famous architects, houses art exhibitions of international standing. Remember to show the calendar of regular exhibition directly from site of Grassi palace to search the shows you most like.
tags : events exhibiotions museum, regular exhibitions,