Museo Correr

Description

Official page of the Correr Museum. The Museum is housed in the former Royal Palace in Piazza San Marco and includes the Napoleonic Wing and the Procuratie Nuove. Born from the collection that Teodoro Correr left to the city in 1830, it offers various itineraries: the neoclassical rooms with important sculptures by Antonio Canova, the historical collections on institutions, urban affairs, the daily life of the city, gradually up to the gallery . Here lies one of the richest and most evocative of Venetian painting from its origins to the early sixteenth century, including works by Lorenzo Veneziano, the Bellini, Carpaccio, Cosme Tura, Antonello da Messina, and Lorenzo Lotto, in a charming display of Carlo Scarpa 1960. Other must-see itinerary follows the sale of "Sissi", or the salt "imperial" in the Royal Palace, recently returned to the visiting public (2012), with the restoration of nine rooms with furniture and decorations made during the Habsburg Empire (1836 -38 and 1854-56). Basic services are associated to the Museum: the Library of Venetian Art and History, with a rich collection of codices and archive documents, the famous Cabinet of Prints and Drawings, the Photographic Archive, the Centre for cataloging and Multimedia Production .