CORRER MUSEUM, Introduction

Hi, I'm Debbie, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.

Today I'll accompany you through the Correr Museum, which has one of Venice's most renowned collections!

The side of St. Mark's Square which faces the church and where you now stand was rebuilt at the beginning of the nineteenth century in elegant Neoclassical forms: it is Correr Museum's main location. The name comes from a Venetian nobleman who worked towards the creation of civic museums in the middle of the eighteenth century. As you can imagine, the heritage of a city like Venice has an incalculable artistic and historical value that has continued to expand over time. It was therefore divided into genres and distributed in different palaces: modern art is at Ca' Pesaro, art from the 1700s at Ca' Rezzonico, natural sciences at Fondaco dei Turchi, glass at Murano, lace at Burano, antiquity at the Archaeological Museum, theater objects are at the Goldoni House, and so on.

In the main museum in St. Mark's Square, which also extends to the rooms of the Napoleonica Wing, you'll find two very interesting collections: the historical memorabilia of the Republic of Venice, and the Art Gallery with important paintings of the Venetian school, to which the Risorgimento Museum and the collection of drawings and prints are added....