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Typology: Art Museum

Addresses

Disabled access: Via del Plebiscito, 118
Zone: Rione Pigna (Torre Argentina) (Roma centro)
Address: Piazza Venezia, 3
Zone: Rione Trevi (Quirinale-Tritone-Barberini) (Roma centro)

Contacts

Opening times

Open every day from 9.30 am to 19.30 (last entrance 18.45)
Closed 25 December

Access for people with motor difficulties can access the museum from the entrance in Via del Plebiscito 118 

Information

Full price € 15,00 included in the Terrazza Panoramica and the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento tickets.
Reduced price € 2,00 from 18 to 25 years old
Free up to 18 years old
Single ticket valid for 7 days after purchase

From 3 April 2022, free entry on the first Sunday of every month.


Agreement with

Roma Pass
What the agreement provides:

Roma Pass: the museum is included in the Roma Pass network

Roma Pass service is temporary suspended. View the website > Roma Pass

Description

The Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia is hosted in the building that once was the great pontifical residence of the Venetian Paolo II Barbo (1464-1471), a great collector and the ideal founder of the building's museum and artistic destiny. Founded in 1921, the museum focused on applied arts.

Its collections were formed from an original group of sculptures and artworks from Castel Sant'Angelo, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica and the collections of the nearby Museo del Collegio Romano, founded in the 17th century by the Jesuit encyclopaedist Athanasius Kircher. 

The original collection included works dating from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with particular areas dedicated to the decorative arts, such as small bronzes, enamels, marbles and Italian-made ceramics. It was first arranged by Federico Hermanin (1871-1953), Director and at the same time Supervisor of the Galleries of Lazio and Abruzzo, who created a layout aimed at reviving the spirit of the ancient splendour of a rich Renaissance residence, displaying paintings, furniture and furnishings from the 15th and 16th centuries in the oldest part of the San Marco architectural complex.

Between 1924 and 1926, the original collections were enlarged by the addition of a number of objects ( whole sets of ceramics, church furniture, silverware, jewellery and sacred parish vestments) that had been acquired from the suppressed religious orders at the end of the last century and came from various monastic communities in the region and from buildings destroyed and heavily damaged in Abruzzo in the Marsica earthquake of 1915. In 1929, the palace was chosen by Benito Mussolini as the seat of the Chief of Government and the museum, although it formally retained its name and organisation, was practically closed and could only be visited with the authorisation of the public security authorities. After the interlude of the war, following substantial bequests and numerous public and private donations, the Palazzo Venezia Museum gradually defined its character as a great Museum of Applied Arts.

It contains various kinds of historical and artistic materials that occupy almost the whole of the piano nobile of the building (with the exception of the monumental halls and the Appartamento Barbo): the large rooms of the Appartamento Cybo, the Passetto dei Cardinali and all the historical rooms around the perimeter of Palazzotto San Marco.

They contain collections of 15th-18th century paintings on wood and canvas, 18th century pastels as well as miniatures and fans; a rich series of Italian and German wooden sculptures; a valuable collection of 16th and 17th century terracotta sketches and reliefs; early medieval and Renaissance marbles; sealers, enamels, sacred gold and silverware for secular use, glass, ivory and Renaissance bronzes of the Italian school; a vast collection of ceramics that includes examples of Orvieto's archaic majolica, Italian Renaissance majolica, porcelain from Italian and foreign manufacturers (including a vast repertoire of oriental export porcelain); There is also a large section of textiles, which includes, in addition to a significant series of tapestries, carpets, Coptic fabrics, modern fabrics for sacred and profane use, lace, headgear and hairstyles of various manufactures and styles. There is also a vast repertoire of chests and furniture in general, wrought iron, various fittings as well as a notable collection of antique weapons and armour.

On 11 July 2013 the National Museum of the Venetian Palace received the privately-owned painting Sacra Famiglia con San Giovannino on loan for a period of eight years. The beautiful and previously unseen panel depicts the Holy Family with St. John the Baptist; it is attributable to the circle of Giorgio Vasari and was painted around the middle of the 16th century.

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