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This page is offered by visitvenice.co.uk, owners of beautiful apartment rentals in Venice, Italy, as a general overview guide to museums and art treasures in Venice.
Venetian churches, scuole and museums
It would be futile to try to document the tens, maybe hundreds of churches around Venice that contain major art works – quite reasonably, only a fraction have websites – but they are all are well-covered by guidebooks we supply in our homes. The core art collection reflecting Venice’s renaissance artistic heritage is the Accademia art gallery, and this sets a helpful context for everything else you will see.
Palazzo Grassi and Puntana della Dogana
Leased by Francois Pinault, the enormous Palazzo Grassi gallery is Venice’s equivalent of the Saatchi Collection: an outstanding venue for major works of modern art, hosting three or four each year. More recently, the French billionaire has added the remarkable Puntana della Dogana building to his art warehouses in Venice! Always worth checking out.
Museo Correr
Museo Correr, on one side of St Mark’s Square, is another major gallery for touring exhibitions. Its home page is on the Venice civic museums site (in Italian).
Architecture in Venice
An enormous subject. Jan-Christoph Rößler’s impressive site is gradually cataloguing all the palaces of Venice with photos and notes of each one. If you’re curious about a palace you pass, this is the definitive web index.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Founded by an eccentric multimillionaire heiress, the Peggy Guggenheim collection is Venice’s most important museum of modern art. It has a significant permanent collection, and hosts touring shows as well.
Biennale di Venezia
Best known for modern art, the cultural colossus of the Biennale is a huge annual international festival of theatre, dance, music and architecture (alternate years 2012, 2014, 2016 etc) and modern art (alternate years 2013, 2015, 2017 etc), running from around March to November … with the international festival of cinema grabbing the limelight every year in late August/early September.
For more tourist information about Venice see our page covering official tourist information sites for Venice , or see information about the Cannaregio area where our two holiday homes are located.
