Location: Castello
Top Things to do in Castello
What to do and see in Castello, 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. Alice in Wonderland Fine Arts Gallery
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5.0 based on 60 reviews
Murano glass gallery, mosaics, glass paintings in the heart of Venice not far from San marco square near the Biennale d'Arte
2. Venezia Gallery di Giorgio Ghidoli
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5.0 based on 7 reviews
“Venezia Gallery” risiede in un angolo ricco di storia di vita veneziana, tra la chiesa dei Greci e la scuola di San Giorgio. La tradizione si riflette nell’arte di Giorgio Ghidòli: pittore e illustratore, ha collaborato con la Mondadori, RCS-Corriere della Sera, Rusconi editori e con varie agenzie pubblicitarie di Milano. Ghidòli vive e lavora a Venezia, dipinge con le antiche tecniche della pittura ad olio, del disegno ad acquerello, a pastello e a penna.
3. Max Studio
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
Reviewed By usa1991
Passed by this shop on a stroll of Venice and found myself drawn back two more times...bought a work of art that I protected during a month-long journey and multi-flight home. It is now displayed in our library and makes me happy each time I see it.
4. Spazio Sv - Centro espositivo San Vidal
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
SPAZIO SV is a place where history, art, tradition and a contemporary gaze are combined, in a place of historical interest located in Campo San Zaccaria, divided and modernized in two exhibition rooms. Retrospective or anthological exhibitions are organized mainly dedicated to artists of the early twentieth century tradition in Venice.
5. Ocean Space
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5.0 based on 4 reviews
Located in the Church of San Lorenzo in Venice, Ocean Space is a planetary center for exhibitions, activations, research and public programs catalyzing ocean literacy, and advocacy through the arts. Established and led by TBA21–Academy and building on its expansive work over the past ten years, this embassy for the oceans fosters wonder, engagement and collective action. In 2019, Ocean Space opened to the public with the exhibition “Moving Off the Land II” by Joan Jonas, after having been largely closed to the public for more than 100 years and after extensive revitalization works, which were finished in early 2020. Ocean Space operates an annual program, open to the public from spring to autumn
Reviewed By franciscagigante - Lisbon, Portugal
I stumbled upon San Lorenzo's Church on a Thursday morning during the summer in Venice to find an urgent call for action in the form of an exhibition. Moving Off the Land presented works by Joan Jonas. I still vividly remember the drawings of different types of sea creatures. I have learned so much about the protection of the ocean ecosystem in a gorgeous space in restoration. It's wonderful to see TBA21-Academy combining arts and science. I am very much looking forward to see it reopening with a new exhibition this summer.
6. Museo di Palazzo Grimani
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4.5 based on 243 reviews
Open to the public on December 20, 2008, after a long restoration, it is currently a Museum belonging to the Veneto Museum Pole. Palazzo Grimani constitutes for the city of Venice a particularly precious novelty for the originality of the architecture, for the decorations and for its history. The long restoration by the Superintendence included the interior decorations, including: the Camerino di Callisto, with stucco by Giovanni da Udine; the Camerino di Apollo, with frescoes by Francesco Salviati and Giovanni da Udine; the Sala del Doge Antonio, decorated with stucco and polychrome marbles; the Sala a Fogliami by Camillo Mantovano, with the ceiling entirely covered with fruit trees, flowers and animals; and the Tribune that housed more than a hundred pieces of the archaeological collection. Here, the sculpture depicting the Kidnapping of Ganimede is suspended in the center of the vault decorated by lacunae.
Reviewed By stefanom8 - Penang Island, Malaysia
A very well restored palazzo, home to one of Venice's greatest families. From the Renaissance courtyard you move to the first and second floors. The latter hosts temporary exhibitions; the former shows the family's grandeur, and is particularly interesting because the 16th century Grimanis seem strongly influenced by Roman and Florentine Mannerism. Don't miss
7. Museo Querini Stampalia
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4.5 based on 250 reviews
In the heart of Venice, near Piazza San Marco, is one of the most interesting cultural complexes in the city: Palazzo Querini Stampalia, the home of the Foundation of the same name created in 1868 by Count Giovanni.The Library, with around 340.000 volumes for public use, the Museum with its eighteenth century and neoclassical furniture, an area for temporary exhibitions and the new Auditorium designed by Mario Botta are housed there.
Reviewed By 227ianc - London, United Kingdom
A hidden gem in Venice, five minutes walk from the Palasso Grimaldi and roughly half way between Rialto and St Mark on a route tourists don't follow, the Fondazione Querini Stampalia is easy to miss even when you are in the square in front of it due to its discrete entrance from a bridge across the rio. The Foundation is a cultural institution founded in 1869 by Conte Giovanni (Count John), the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family. Italian architect Carlo Scarpa, famous for his sensitive modern additions to historic buildings, designed modernist additions historic buildings to create a cultural complex which connects into the historic home of the Querini Stampalia family, displaying historic collections and supporting a variety of different activities and exhibitions. It also houses a loan collection from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group. For the Biennale, modern art includes interventions and photographs by Roman Opalka in the historic rooms and a major exhibition of the work of the German painter Jorg Immendorff, while there is also an explanatory display on the Count and his library and modern art on display in Scarpa's ground floor spaces at the level of the rio. The admission charge allows admission to all the exhibition and museum areas, plus there is a cafe. There is much more to see than you might appreciate so plan to spend a serious amount of time in this fascinating complex.
8. Scuola Dalmata S.ti Giorgio e Trifone
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4.5 based on 221 reviews
Reviewed By ralfkrueger2211 - Wurzburg, Germany
Hidden next to a bridge on a side canal, the building of the Scuola houses some of the most beautiful paintings of the Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio (around 14651525/26 ) Three paintings he dedicated to the Saint George. The first from left shows him how he killing the dragon. In the second Saint George killed the beast at the gates of the city. The Tryphone´s miracle behind the altar represents the Saint Tryphon who free a princess´s daughter from the clutches of the Basilisk. The right wall of the hall is dedicated to the life of Saint Hieronymus.
9. Domino Arte
10. Deposito del Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra Sant'Apollonia
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