The 10 Best Specialty Museums in Veneto, Italy

Immerse yourself in Venice's Age of Decadence with a visit to this lavish palace of the Venetian aristocracy Rezzonico, which houses an unsurpassed collection of eighteenth-century Venetian art.

A masterpiece of Gothic architecture, the building and its sculptural decoration date from various periods. The interior, with works by artists such as Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, A.Vittoria and Tiepolo, includes vast council chambers, superbly decorated residential apartments, and austere prison cells. Along the facades of the Palace run loggias that overlook St. Mark’s Square and the lagoon. The combined entrance ticket to the St. Mark’s Square Museums grants access to the Doge’s Palace, Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale and Monumental Rooms of Biblioteca Marciana.

The Zeni winery is located on the first hill beside the city center of Bardolino. From 1870 the Zeni Families have been dedicated in to the growing of the local vines and in to the production of the veronese classical wines. This wines are: Bardolino, Custoza, Lugana, Soave and Valpolicella, where inside the classical area the family has one more winery. From 1991 inside the winery in Bardolino is located the Wine Museum, a collection and proof of the local and ancient veronese wine tradition. The Wine Museum and adjacent Vinoteca are free entry for all individual visitors. For groups of 10 or more people the reservation is required. For both individual visitors and groups we required the reservation also for the visit of the entire winery. The Zeni winery is proud to present GO the olfactory gallery, a new eno-sensory tasting, which is the first of its kind in Italy.

From rural handicraft to industrial technology: this is the leading thread of the Olive Oil Museum. An ancient, powerful lever press, millstones, screw presses and a reconstruction of a 19th century water mill are the highlights of this exhibition, also enriched by historical documents and teaching equipment. A celebration of oil and olive trees, two peculiar elements in the history and civilisation of Mediterranean peoples

Palazzo Sturm, dal cui belvedere si può godere di un’impareggiabile panorama sul fiume Brenta e sul Ponte Vecchio, fu donato al Comune di Bassano dal barone Giovanni Battista Sturm von Hirschfeld nel 1943. La preziosa dimora voluta da Vincenzo Ferrari, importante industriale e commerciate di sete, venne edificata verso la metà del XVIII secolo. L’edificio conta oltre settanta stanze distribuite su sette livelli e decorate dal pittore veronese Giorgio Anselmi nel 1760 circa. I soggetti mitologici e allegorici, rappresentati con un gusto che richiama la maniera dei cosiddetti trionfi barocchi romano-bolognesi, alludono alle imprese commerciali ed economiche della manifattura della famiglia Ferrari. Attualmente il palazzo ospita il Museo della Ceramica Giuseppe Roi, che raccoglie collezioni di ceramiche antiche, il Museo della Stampa Remondini, dedicato alla tipografia e calcografia della celebre famiglia di imprenditori grafici.

Welcome to the Museum of the most Italian of spirits: Grappa. Not far from Venice, at the foot of Monte Grappa, lies the enchanting town of Bassano del Grappa, the "capital" of the very Italian distillate: Grappa. In the heart of the town, opposite the historic Ponte Vecchio, in the old "Palazzo delle Teste", is the Poli Grappa Museum. The Poli Grappa Museum, the result of a long and passionate research, the Museum was created by the Poli Family in appreciation of Grappa. The Museum consists of five suggestive rooms and visits are self-guided.