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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. Le Stanze Del Vetro
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5.0 based on 47 reviews
Reviewed By gpl676 - Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Le Stanze del Vetro (The Glass Rooms) is dedicated to Exhibitions of Glass. It is located behind the church on the island of Saint Giorgio Maggiore opposite the Doges Palace in the Historic Centre of Venice. From the water bus stop for line No 2 in front of the church walk to the left round the side of the church to find the Glass rooms to the right. They generally have two exhibitions per year. One which runs from September to the following January is devoted to a glass designer, or designers from Murano. Recent examples are the Cappellin workshop, the designer Carlo Scarpa, the Venini workshop many designers. The current exhibition is on Thomas Stearns for Venini. The other exhibition runs from April to July is devoted to other European glass designers and workshops. The space comprises 7 or 8 rooms and ip to 300 works are often displayed with excellent background information, sketches and drawings also exhibited . Collections displayed are assembled from loans from many private and public collections throughout the world. The exhibition is a free and open every day except Wednesday. I recommend these excellent exhibitions as an opportunity to see works that are otherwise often only seen in books . A first rate series of catalogues have been produced and many are available and are extremely good value. The exhibition space is run jointly by the Cini Foundation in Venice and the Pentagram Stiftung.
2. Palazzo Fortuny (Pesaro degli Orfei)
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4.5 based on 256 reviews
Situated in the Gothic palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei in Campo San Beneto; the building was transformed by Mariano Fortuny into his own photography, set-design, stagecraft, fabric-creation and painting atelier: the building still testify to all of these activities, with various art and tapestries collections. The museum also hosts temporary art exhibitions, all of which closely connected to the spirit of its founder. Now closed due to maintenance work. It will reopen on December 14th, with the exhibition FUTURUINES
Reviewed By SaraF742 - Denver, United States
The fabric and photographs, paintings, artifacts— oh my what a lots of wonderful real things to get close to without the crowds. In depth story about the family and the fabric designs. Peggy Guggenheim had a dress made in the tiny pleated art (something currently an inspiration for a Navajo Native American friend who is a fashion designer). I say a dress made in this style in a Fortuny store in the San Marco area, as viable a design as when originally conceived. Hard not to "feel the goods" in the museum, fingers simply ache to want to touch! The early photos and the art by the elder Fortuny were additional glimpses into areas we cannot otherwise now know.
3. Museo Correr
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4.0 based on 1,751 reviews
Museo Correr is situated in the ex-Royal Palace in Piazza San Marco and includes the Napoleonic Wing and the Procuratie Nuove. It was created out of the art collection which Teodoro Correr left to the city in 1830 and offers various tours: from the neoclassical rooms, with sculptures by Antonio Canova, to historical collections on the city’s institutions, urban history and daily life. The picture gallery, one of the most fascinating collections of Venetian painting from its origins to the early 16th century, includes works by Lorenzo Veneziano, the Bellini family, Carpaccio, Cosmè Tura, Antonello da Messina and Lorenzo Lotto, displayed in an interesting layout by Carlo Scarpa.
Reviewed By naughtyjohn1964 - Swadlincote, United Kingdom
Included with Museum Pass, this is a gorgeous space that takes up two or three sides of St Mark’s Square. Some of the exhibits are fascinating but it is just as interesting for its views sneaked through the windows and the wonderful rooms you walk through. A perfect taste of sixteenth/seventeenth century Venice.
4. Palazzo Grassi
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4.0 based on 485 reviews
The museums part of Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana are currently closed to the public. Both museums will reopen on April 9, 2017. Inaugurated in 2006 and 2009, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana are two contemporary art museums. Renovated by Japanese architect Tadao Ando they present personnal and collective exhibitions. Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana aim to share with the public the extraordinary Pinault Collection and to strengthen the priviledged relationship the institution has developed with artists, especially thanks to works specifically conceived for its exhibition spaces. Since May 2013, the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi complements this artistic and cultural programme. Conceived by Tadao Ando, this 225-seat auditorium offers a wide range of events - conferences, concerts, screenings - that underline the will to establish a dialogue with a Venetian and international public.
Reviewed By F8651HXdominiqueb
Trip Advisor is incorrect: Palazzo Grassi is open. The current exhibitions are definitely worth the (somewhat steep 15 Euro) price of admission*: the work of Cartier-Bresson independently curated by 5 different artists (photographer Annie Leibovitz, film director Wim Wenders, writer Javier Cercas, photography-conservator Sylvie Aubenas and, of course, collector François Pinault). The overlaps are interesting, but the differences even more so. Anyone interested not just in photography but seeing vs. looking will enjoy this exhibition. The Youssef Nabil exhibition is, among other things, a love letter to Egypt, a visual autobiography, and -- in severe contrast to Henri Cartier-Bresson's work -- presented in full Hollywood color. Nabil's work will, I think, particularly appeal to anyone who feels or has felt at least a little lost in the world. *Note that this also includes admission to the Punta della Dogana.
5. Galleria Traghetto
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4.0 based on 1 reviews
6. Collezione Storica e degli Archivi Rubelli
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4.0 based on 2 reviews
