Alla fine del secolo scorso, la duchessa Felicita Bevilacqua La Masa lasciò alla città di Venezia il proprio Palazzo sul Canal Grande, Cà Pesaro, che volle destinare "a profitto specie dei giovani artisti ai quali è spesso interdetto l'ingresso nelle grandi mostre".

A visit to the museum in St Mark’s Square is a good way to discover Venice’s history and art. The tour begins in the Napoleon Wing and proceeds to the Neoclassical Rooms which holds scupture by Canova and ends in the Public Prosecutors rooms with exhibits on the history of Venice and ancient art. The second floor displays a collection of Venetian art from its beginnings until the 1500s and also houses the Museum of the Risorgimento. 

Il sistema dei Musei Civici Veneziani è costituito da un insieme organico di sedi e collezioni, di enorme importanza e valore artistico e storico, che racchiude i principali musei della città.

Palace Mocenigo, at San Stae, is a stunning example of architecture in Venice at the beginning of the XVII century, and it holds precious decorations and paintings from the 1700s.
It constitutes the lodgings of the Study Centre of Fabrics and Costumes and a Museum of the same name.

The museum is located in the ancient Gothic palace that goes by the same name, in campo San Beneto, previously owned by the Pesaro family, later purchased by Mariano Fortuny. 
Fortuny had it in mind to make it his atelier for photographs, scenography and scenotechnique, the creation of fabbric and painting: of all these functions the building only conserved rooms and structures, upholstery and collections.

The Oriental Art Museum is located in the ancient baroque palace of the Pesaro family, at San Stae, on the Gran Canal and holds one of the biggest and most important European collections of Japanese art of the Edo period (1615-1868), which was collected at the end of the IX century by Enrico di Borbone, count of Bardi, during one of his travels to the far east, between 1887 and 1889.

A historically and artistically interesting itinerary can be seen in the ancient Vescovi di Torcello Palace, based on the production of Murano glass from its origins till our day.

The  Museo di San Marco  reopened to the public in 2003.  It has been modified by enlarging museum space in the atrium above St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s former dining room.
The museum centres on three large aspects of St. Mark’s Patrimony:  mosaics, fabrics,  the four bronze horses and ancient relics.

The Museum of Torcello, set in two buildings in the island’s Piazza, displays archaeological findings coming from Torcello, Altino and other lagoon isles: headstones; Attic, Corinthian, Tuscan ceramics, and Roman Age marble portraits.

This is the home and museum of an ancient aristocratic Venetian family, the Querini.  It holds more than 400 paintings of Venetian, Italian and foreign schools.  This house, located in Campo Santa Maria Formosa, next to the church of the same name, is witness to the Venetian style of life of the XVIII century.