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fore you buy anything, I recommend spending a little time looking at historical examples
of the works you have in mind. You'll come away with the ability to recognize traditional
colors, patterns, styles, and conventions, and you'll be better equipped to discern quality
and authenticity when you hit the streets. Check the museum web sites for current inform-
ation about opening hours and admission fees, and to buy tickets online where available.
Ca' Rezzonico
Dorsoduro 3136
www.carezzonico.visitmuve.it
The Ca' Rezzonico is part of the city museum network, and is housed in the opulent former palace of the
Rezzonico family along the Grand Canal. On the ground floor stands a nineteenth-century gondola with its
passenger compartment (
felze
) intact.
Glass Museum
Museo vetrario
Palazzo Giustinian
Fondamenta Marco Giustinian, 8
Murano
www.museovetro.visitmuve.it
Before heading off to the glass factories, visit the glass museum to train your eye to recognize distinctive
shapes, colors, and styles from the history of Murano glass. You may be surprised! I had always thought that
the miniature mice and horses crafted of Murano glass were a product of modern kitsch taste, but I was wrong.
Glassmakers made them even in the seventeenth century, and you can see these creatures and other glass
wonders in this fantastic museum collection assembled beginning in the 1860s.
Museo Correr
Piazza San Marco, 52
www.correr.visitmuve.it
Years ago several gondola prow forks dating probably from the 1600s were pulled from the canal waters. You
can admire their beautiful curvilinear profiles at one of the civic museums of Venice, the Museo Correr. This
intriguing museum began with the private collection of Teodoro Correr, a member of an old Venetian family and
a passionate collector of Venetian historical objects—everything from paintings to coins, nautical instruments,
arms and armor, and other fascinating miscellanea. The museum also holds numerous examples of Venetian
lace from the sixteenth century onward.
Naval History Museum
Museo storico navale
Castello 2148
In addition to impressive collections relating to the history of the Venetian state shipyard, the Arsenale, this
maritime museum also includes a gallery dedicated to the history of the gondola. It even displays the gondola
that Peggy Guggenheim used as her preferred mode of transportation around the city.
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