Museum halls
A tour of the finest frames and a few well-timed chuckles. Choose a hall and mind the ropes.
Modern art in a canal-side palazzo—Picasso, Pollock, and friends with water lapping at the steps. It’s Venice’s most stylish reminder that the 20th century arrived by boat.
The essential crash course in Venetian painting: Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto. You leave with new respect for color—and for the city’s ability to turn light into a medium.
A government building that moonlighted as an art statement: gilded ceilings, grand rooms, and enough drama to power a whole opera season.
Venice’s living-room museum on Piazza San Marco—history, portraits, and the city’s self-image curated with admirable confidence.
An 18th-century palace turned museum of Venetian life and art. It’s the best way to understand how the city once performed luxury as an everyday habit.
Modern art in a baroque shell, with a collection that balances big names and Venetian eccentricities. A perfect counterpoint to all that Renaissance magnificence.
Contemporary art at the city’s sharpest point, where two canals meet and ideas feel as changeable as the tide.
A major contemporary program inside a grand palazzo—proof Venice can do ‘now’ as convincingly as it does ‘then.’
Tintoretto wall-to-wall: an immersive, almost cinematic sequence of paintings that makes you understand why Venice takes art personally.
The world’s most famous contemporary art pilgrimage, staged across gardens and shipyards. It’s where Venice turns into the global art conversation—loud, strange, and glorious.
