Location: San Polo
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Things to do in Venice, Veneto: The Best Museums
With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list. Waterfront palazzos, palaces, and churches make drifting down the Grand Canal feel like cruising through a painting. To really experience Venice you must go to the opera or to a classical music performance, nibble fresh pasta and pastries, and linger in the exhibit halls of an art gallery. Label lovers will drool over the high-end shopping in Piazza San Marco.
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1. Laboratori Artigiano Vetro Calchera Fabio
2. PieM.Art
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
A young art Gallery in Venice. Our clients can appreciate paints, photos, graphics and sculptures. Above all VENICE in many shapes.The materials: canvas, wood, murano glass and other items.
3. Atelier d'Arte La Colonna
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5.0 based on 14 reviews
Atelier about art, homemade drawing and pictures. When you came inside you feel the idea of art, of the impression of mind about the artist. You can see different work of different idea of art about the expression of the artist, you can found your piece inside many other piece. I wait you for visit me and lost inside my works.
4. Palazzo Bonvicini – Fondation Valmont
5. Creature di Gomma - Venice Vintage Toys
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5.0 based on 222 reviews
The exhibition Creature di Gomma - Venice Vintage Toys, was born from an idea of the Venetian collector Fabrizio Fontanella, matured over time and resulted in 2018 in a project that makes its private collection available to the public. It is an impressive collection, one of the most important in the world, of vintage puppets and toys from the sixties, seventies and eighties, the result of a passion that has lasted for thirty years. Today it counts more than 5.000 pieces. It is a Cultural Association and the entrance card, valid till the end of the year, is of 5 euro per person.
Reviewed By I4487YHalicel
Visited this lovely place after seeing all of the wonderful reviews and it didn't disappoint! Lovely trip down memory lane with some of the characters on display, and we even discovered a few we had never seen before. Very friendly staff member talked us through the history of the collection and some of the individual pieces. Very fair price of €5, would recommend to all ages.
6. Dosana
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5.0 based on 18 reviews
Shop of articles, objects and costume jewelery made with certified Murano glass. The shop is located in the historic center of Venice in Campo San Polo, one of the largest and most beautiful fields in Venice
Reviewed By KeesvanderBeek - Villebon-sur-Yvette, France
We greatly enjoyed visiting this quality shop (and workshop), which proposes a series of beautiful and tasteful glass and crystal objects of all sorts. The owners are very friendly, knowledgeable, and keen to share their knowledge and advice. We bought a wonderful crystal bowl here, the likes we have not seen elsewhere. All is original, all is handmade in Italy. Thumbs up for a great store ! _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Ci è piaciuto molto visitare questo negozio di qualità (e laboratorio), che propone una serie di oggetti in vetro e cristallo belli e raffinati di ogni sorta. I proprietari sono molto cordiali, competenti e desiderosi di condividere le loro conoscenze e consigli. Abbiamo comprato una meravigliosa ciotola di cristallo qui, cose che non abbiamo visto altrove. Tutto è originale, tutto è fatto a mano in Italia. Complimenti per un ottimo negozio!
7. Palazzo Mocenigo
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4.5 based on 509 reviews
A patrician residence at San Stae, Palazzo Mocenigo houses valuable 18th century artworks and is also home to the Study Centre for the History of Textiles and Costumes. A fine selection of rare textiles and costumes of particular importance are displayed. The collection is laid out with a significant importance given to garments and accessories. Mainly of Venetian origin, the works are often embellished with lace and embroidery, skills of several artisans who made such a contribution to that refined luxury and elegance for which the Venetians of those days were famous for.
Reviewed By JandApe - Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Venice has a surfeit of riches - especially when it comes to historic attractions. The “Premier League” ones such as the Doge’s Palace, St. Mark’s etc. are so popular, that a visit requires some prior planning – or a long time standing in line. If you don’t have the appetite for either, then the Palazzo Mocenigo could be the place you are looking for. You just alight from the #1 vaporetto at San Stae, walk up the “salizada” to the right of the church and within seconds – you’re there. The Palazzo is billed as being the best preserved example, of a noble Venetian family’s residence. A family that produced an impressive seven Doge’s, during the 15th through to the 18th centuries. On that count alone, it does not disappoint. The rooms are obviously a shadow of their “peak opulence” but are still very impressive. Throw in the artworks, a display of 18th century clothing and an interesting exhibition on the development of the perfume industry and you have a very enjoyable couple of hours. The whole experience was amplified by the unaggressive stewardship of the staff. On so many occasions, a visit to an attraction has been ruined by the wail of proximity alarms, or the piercing gaze of overly cautious guardians. Not that I blame establishments for this, tourists can be monumentally stupid at times. Plonking their derrieres on delicate antique furniture and above all, exhibiting a curious desire to touch anything within reach. On the whole - we get what we deserve. Palazzo Mocenigo may not be at the top of Venice’s “must see” list of attractions but a visit should satisfy almost everybody’s expectations – and then some.
8. Museo d’Arte Orientale
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4.5 based on 36 reviews
The Museum of Oriental Art of Venice is one of the most important collection in Japanese art of the Edo period (1606-1868). It is hosted in the magnificent palace Ca' Pesaro designed by Baldassarre Longhena in 1652 for the Pesaro family.
9. Archivio di Stato
10. Ca' Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna
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4.0 based on 582 reviews
Ca’ Pesaro, the most important baroque palace in the city, designed by Baldassare Longhena, has been the seat of Venice City Council’s collection of Modern Art since 1902. The collection was created in 1897 on occasion of the city’s second Art Biennale. The focus of the museum’s collections consists of works that won prizes or were acquired in the early decades of the Biennale. These include famous masterpieces, such as Klimt’s Judith II (Salomè, 1909) and Chagall’s Rabbi of Vitebsk (1922). One of the museum’s strengths is its vast collection of sculptures, including works in wax by Medardo Rosso, donated by the artist in 1914. Further acquisitions have endowed the museum with notable works, from Kandinsky to Klee, Matisse to Moore, as well as a rich selection of works by Italian artists and graphic art. After restoration works in 2002, the exhibition area has been extended further to the second floor. The Oriental Art Museum, on the third floor, can be visited with the same ticket.
Reviewed By lucianm2013 - Constanta, Romania
We included Ca' Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna on Venezia Unica City Pass, so the entrance fee was covered by it. The Museum is hosted in a very nice Baroque palace, facing the Grand Canal. You can get there very easy by Vaporetto 1 either from Piazzale Roma, either from Piazza San Marco and get off at San Stae – from there you have to walk a little bit. In the Museum we admired a nice collection of paintings and sculptures created by artists from 19th and 20th century. We stopped for a while in front of some well-known works of Gustav Klimt, Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Rodin, Henry Moore … During our visit there (October 2018), a temporary exhibition dedicated to Fiorucci creations was open to public. This particular exhibition was really impressive by colors and shapes, and we enjoyed a lot. At the last floor of the building is the Museum of Oriental Art. Among other many nice and interesting exhibits we admired a wide collection of Japanese swords – I never seen so many in one place! The Museum worth the time and money spent for visit.
