Museum Correr

Major sights in Venice

Museum Correr, which occupies the Procuratie Nuove facing the Doges` Palace on the Piazza San Marco, is the city museum of art and history. First opened to the public in the house of Teodoro Correr in 1836, it was moved to this location in 1922.

The collection contains a wood engraving by Jacopo de Barbari, shown with the six original blocks, which presents a bird`s-eye view of Venice in 1500. There is a collection of prints of Venice from the 16th to the 18th century. The Ballroom contains marble and plaster statues and bas reliefs by the greatest sculptor of the age: Antonio Canova (1757-1822), along with some of his bozzetti for funerary monuments, including one for Titian.

The Throne Room displays frescoes by Giovanni Carlo Bevilacqua from the rooms of the Procuratie Nuove (the Procurators were officials elected permanently and only second to the Doges in status - their residence became a palace in the period of Napoleon) and panels by Francesco Hayez from 1817.

The historical collection contains a painting of the arrival of the Queen of Cyprus in Venice in 1489, apparel worn by the Doges and platform shoes worn by Venetian women, documents, medals and commemorative paintings.

There is also a coin collection ranging from the 9th century to the fall of the Venetian Republic, as well as weaponry, Italian and oriental china and bronze and a prayer book with a hidden dagger.

The upstairs picture gallery shows paintings by Carpaccio, Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini, Cosmé Tura and Daniele Manin.

Visit the official website of the Museum Correr in Venice