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With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list. Waterfront palazzos, palaces, and churches make drifting down the Grand Canal feel like cruising through a painting. To really experience Venice you must go to the opera or to a classical music performance, nibble fresh pasta and pastries, and linger in the exhibit halls of an art gallery. Label lovers will drool over the high-end shopping in Piazza San Marco.
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1. Creature di Gomma - Venice Vintage Toys
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5.0 based on 222 reviews
The exhibition Creature di Gomma - Venice Vintage Toys, was born from an idea of the Venetian collector Fabrizio Fontanella, matured over time and resulted in 2018 in a project that makes its private collection available to the public. It is an impressive collection, one of the most important in the world, of vintage puppets and toys from the sixties, seventies and eighties, the result of a passion that has lasted for thirty years. Today it counts more than 5.000 pieces. It is a Cultural Association and the entrance card, valid till the end of the year, is of 5 euro per person.
Reviewed By I4487YHalicel
Visited this lovely place after seeing all of the wonderful reviews and it didn't disappoint! Lovely trip down memory lane with some of the characters on display, and we even discovered a few we had never seen before. Very friendly staff member talked us through the history of the collection and some of the individual pieces. Very fair price of €5, would recommend to all ages.
2. Museo d’Arte Orientale
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4.5 based on 36 reviews
The Museum of Oriental Art of Venice is one of the most important collection in Japanese art of the Edo period (1606-1868). It is hosted in the magnificent palace Ca' Pesaro designed by Baldassarre Longhena in 1652 for the Pesaro family.
3. Museo Leonardo da Vinci
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4.0 based on 278 reviews
The Leonardo da Vinci Museum is in Venice, at the Scoletta di San Rocco, in front of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. Science, Genius, Art - The Leonardo da Vinci Museum exhibits his universal genius through interactive machines, multimedia videos, educational laboratories, infographics, anatomical studies and his most important paintings.
Reviewed By EcoBean - Kennington, United Kingdom
This is more than the paintings and art of Leonardo Da Vinci. The museum has working replica's of Da Vinci's many inventions, the flying machine, war machines, mathematical modelling and engineering research that Da Vinci devoted much of his life to. There are also analyses of his finer pieces of art work, and a great exhibit into his studies of the human body that influenced his painting. Really enjoyed the whole tour.
4. Ca' Corner della Regina
5. Casa di Carlo Goldoni
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3.0 based on 147 reviews
Birthplace of the famous playwright Carlo Goldoni, Palazzo Centani in San Polo houses a small museum of Venetian theatrical memorabilia. It hosts various teaching activities and also a puppet-theatre from Ca’ Grimani ai Servi, formerly part of the Ca’ Rezzonico collection. The archive and library (over 30,000 works) are of significant importance, including theatrical texts, studies and original manuscripts.
