Museo Correr
San Marco square

The Museo Correr (Correr museum) is right in front of the San Marco’s Basilica, and offers an exciting itinerary to discover the history of Venetian art.
The Museum was founded in 1830 after the donation of Teodoro Correr’ s collection to the city of Venice. The journey inside the museum starts from Napoleon’ s Hall, a marvellous Neo-classical creation that after the collapse of Venetian Republic (1797) became the French royal palace, to be later occupied by the Austrians and then the Kings of Italy (1866). The exposition goes further on to the halls of the “Procuratie Nuove”, designed in the 16th century by V. Scamozzi, where traditionally resided the Venetian magistrate.