Venice Museums: Venice, Veneto, Italy. Venice really is a city like no other and over the years has become famous for its canals, historical waterfront buildings, and more recently, its growing number of quality museums.
Particularly famous and something of a landmark in its own right is the simply beautiful Doge's Palace, which is known locally in Venice as the Palazzo Ducale. This stunning palace / museum is a superb example of Gothic architecture at its best and the view of its waterfront facade is certainly very memorable. Also notable is the Marciano Museum, which is actually part of the Basilica San Marco complex (Basilica of St. Mark) and known for its 12th-century Byzantine sculptures, 13th-century Gobelin tapestries and 14th-century Baptistery mosaic fragments.
Other cultural highlights in Venice come in the form of the Museo Archeologico (Archaeological) and the Museo di Storia Naturale (Natural History Museum), within the 13th-century palace named the Fondaco dei Turchi. Venice Contemporary Art Tours: Itinerary. Guggenheim. Permanent collection The core mission of the museum is to present the personal collection of Peggy Guggenheim herself.
The collection holds major works of Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical painting, European abstraction, avant-garde sculpture, Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism, by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century. The museum also exhibits works of art given to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for its Venetian museum since Peggy Guggenheim's death, as well as long-term loans from private collections. Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection From October 2012 eighty works of Italian, European and American art of the decades after 1945 are added to the collections of the Solomon R. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Gino Severini. Sea = Dancer. January 1914. Constantin Brancusi. Maiastra. 1912 (?) Georges Braque. The Clarinet. summer-fall 1912. Marcel Duchamp. Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train. 1911–12. Guggenheim. Fondazione Querini Stampalia. Contemporary art exhibitions Venice - Punta della Dogana Venice.
St_art Collection - Palazzo Grassi. Venice modern art museum - Palazzo Grassi. Architecture of Venice, Italy. Www.querinistampalia.it/FondazioneQueriniStampaliaEng.pdf. Brief biographical notes.