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The Ca’ Pesaro in Venice is a palace that houses the International Gallery of Modern Art. It is my favourite modern art gallery because not only is it a beautiful building, in a beautiful location on the bank of the Grand Canal in Venice, but because it exhibits a large number of artworks – paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and installations – by many of my favourite artists of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries (Rosso, Boccioni, Severini, De Chirico, Fontana, Rodin, Bonnard, Klimt, Kandinsky, Mirò and Moore. The first floor houses the semi-permanent exhibition which changes every two to three years. The second floor is used to present contemporary pieces, those on long term loan from other institutions and temporary exhibitions. The current exhibition is the Gemma De Angelis Testa donation which includes masterpieces by Rauschenberg, Twombly and Kiefer. The Oriental Art Museum is on the third floor and comprises a collection of Japanese, Chinese, and Indonesian pieces. There is an excellent cafe and book shop on the ground floor. The staff are courteous, knowledgeable and helpful.
Angela Lidder
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I popped in here last week. It's relatively small, with a bunch of 19th/20th-century modernist art on the ground floor, a special exhibit with some modern art on the second floor, and an exhibition of oriental loot on the top floor. The collection isn't very large but has some big names, notably Gustav Klimt, Joan Miro, and Antonio Donghi. When I went the special exhibit was dedicated to disco-era fashion throwback Fiorucci. The oriental exhibit is relatively gloomy, slightly hard to access (narrow stairs) and feels less loved than the rest, although there were some neat boxes. The lobby has a piano which appears to be freely-available to passers-by. It also has a surprisingly large cafe that isn't all that expensive. I have to admit I went mainly for the cafe, because it was baking hot at the time; a chicken bun and spritz came to about €12 off the top of my head, not awful for Venice, and the spritz was nice. It's on the waterfront and if you get a nice table you can gaze at the canal traffic in relative comfort.
Ashley Pomeroy
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Housed in a grand Baroque palace, this is one of Venice’s major museums for modern art, featuring an extensive collection of 19th- and 20th-century paintings and sculptures. The building was designed by Baldassarre Longhena in the mid-17th century and completed in 1710. Originally the residence of the noble Pesaro family, it was transformed into a modern art gallery and opened to the public in 1902. The museum holds works by artists such as Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, Pierre Bonnard, and Wassily Kandinsky, along with sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Medardo Rosso, Adolfo Wildt, and Arturo Martini. The top floor is home to the Museo d'Arte Orientale, which features a rich collection of Asian art, including lacquerware and decorative objects from Japan’s Edo period. ※ Included in the Venice Museum Pass.
Seokjin Ham
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I really loved this little museum. - The main collection has nothing too exeptionnal but is is comprehensive with a good set of pieces per period and interesting descriptions. - The temporary exhibition was also of quite high quality and I enjoyed it and learned. - The Asian art/historic collection is also interesting. Loads of samurai swords, so many swords. It's a nice overview with interesting details and demonstrations. - The building is really nice, and the bar has a terrace that is on the canal. This was not crowded at all and propably one of the nicest sport to have a drink during the day for me. - Great museum to rest a bit, less crowded, the collection is not too heavy and rather well explained making it a worthy stop.
Thibault laib
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This beautiful palace houses the museum for modern art and the oriental museum. Modern art is situated in the large rooms of this former palace and has been renovated with a lot of care and attention. Even if modern art is not your cup of tea, the palace itself it wurthwile. The museum of oriental art is at the top of the building. It houses one of the largest European collections of Japanese art. The variety is overwhelming and the quality of certain artefacts of worldclass. Given the size of both collections, it could be wise to focus on one of the two as there is really a lot to discover.
Bart Eekhaut
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A great experience at Ca’ Pesaro, and it was surprisingly very empty on the Sunday we went. It is included in the Venice Museum Pass (€35 pp) which is worth looking into ahead of your Venice trip, and the staff in the ticket office were able to validate my Venice Pass and print out a ticket I could then use at the other museums. There are three floors of exhibitions, and the first was my favourite with paintings and sculptures from the likes of Klimt, Rodin, Zecchin, and Sironi. The second floor had a free exhibition of contemporary art, and the third was dedicated to oriental art.
Connie
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The Ca' Pesaro is a Baroque marble palace turned art museum, facing the Grand Canal of Venice, Italy. Today it is one of the 11 museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia system.
attractions: Piazza San Marco, Rialto Bridge, St. Mark's Square, Saint Mark's Basilica, Librairie Acqua Alta, Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia, Teatro La Fenice, Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Constitution Bridge, Basilica S.Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, restaurants: Ristorante Due Fratelli, Ristorante Caffè Saraceno, Trattoria Al Gazzettino, Dal Moro's, Farini, Bacareto da Lele, Rosticceria Gislon, Caffè Florian, Osteria del Lovo, Hostaria Osottoosopra
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