Best museums in Venice: prices, closed days and the Dorsoduro Museum Mile

💡 The Short Version: Monday closes the Accademia (open Tuesday to Sunday, €20), Ca’ Pesaro and Palazzo Mocenigo. Tuesday closes the Peggy Guggenheim (€17), Ca’ Rezzonico (€15), the Fortuny Museum, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana (one €20 ticket). The Doge’s Palace and the Correr open every day. A paid ticket at one of four Dorsoduro museums gives a reduced ticket at the other three within seven days. Ca’ d’Oro has been closed since 2 February 2026, with reopening expected in spring 2027. The Museum Pass (€50) covers the civic museums but not the Accademia or the Peggy Guggenheim. Or book: the Peggy Guggenheim ticketad on GetYourGuide is from €18.50.

Prices, hours and closed days

Prices are the adult rate from each museum’s own site. Hours given are those from 1 April to 31 October, and the civic museums close an hour earlier from 1 November.

Gallerie dell’Accademia

€20 · open Tuesday to Sunday · Dorsoduro

The Accademia is the state gallery of Venetian painting, “from golden origins to eighteenth-century masterpieces”, and the museum’s own highlights are Giorgione’s The Tempest, Tintoretto’s Saint Mark Freeing the Slave, Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi, Bosch’s Hermit Saints Triptych and Paolo Veneziano’s Coronation of the Virgin polyptych. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 to 19:00; ticket sales end at 18:00, and visitors are asked to leave from half an hour before closing.

The Gallerie dell’Accademia from the Grand Canal. Photo: Armin Kleiner, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Under-18s go free. The €2 ticket is for EU citizens aged 18 to 25 only, so visitors from the UK, the US, Canada and Australia in that age range pay €20. On Fridays from 17:15 to 19:00, people aged 26 to 35 pay €15 for the Arteritivo ticket. Entry is free on the first Sunday of each month, with no booking and a queue: the next are 1 November and 6 December 2026 and 3 January 2027, and 4 November is free too. The audio guide is €6.

Buy online at the museum’s page: TicketOne is the only authorised online reseller, and the desk takes cash and cards. Booking is not required, though the museum recommends it for busy days. Rucksacks and bulky bags are not allowed; lockers up to 45 x 35 x 65 cm take a €1 coin deposit.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

€17 · closed Tuesdays · Dorsoduro 701

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal between the Accademia Bridge and the Salute. Adults pay €17, over-70s €14 and students under 26 €9, and children under 10 go free. The audio guide is €7. It is open daily 10:00 to 18:00 except Tuesdays and 25 December, with the ticket office and last entrance at 17:00. Buying online for an entry slot is advised, and tickets are also sold at the desk.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, from the Grand Canal. Photo: Armin Kleiner, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Large bags, backpacks and suitcases are not allowed. Neither is food or drink, including in the garden. The museum refuses admission to anyone shirtless, in swimwear or barefoot. Tickets are sold at ticket.guggenheim-venice.it; GetYourGuide’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection ticketad is sold by Venezia Unica by Vela Spa, is labelled an official ticket and is from €18.50, which is €1.50 above the museum’s price.

Ca’ Rezzonico

€15 · closed Tuesdays · Dorsoduro

Ca’ Rezzonico is the Museum of 18th-century Venice, in a palace on the Grand Canal with paintings, period furniture and frescoed rooms. The MUVE app audio guide is included in the €15; reduced tickets are €7.50. The vaporetto stop is Ca’ Rezzonico, on line 1. A combined ticket with Palazzo Mocenigo and Goldoni’s House is €20 for three months, and the Museum Pass covers all three.

Ca’ Pesaro

€15 · closed Mondays · Santa Croce

Ca’ Pesaro holds the city’s International Gallery of Modern Art, built round works bought at the early Biennales, and the Museum of Oriental Art. Klimt’s Judith II (1909) hangs here. The €15 ticket is also sold on GetYourGuide by Venezia Unica by Vela Spa as an official ticketad at the same price.

Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana

€20 for both · closed Tuesdays · San Marco and Dorsoduro

The Pinault Collection runs Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana as one ticket for two buildings, with temporary exhibitions only. The full price is €20 and the reduced price €15, ages 20 to 26 pay €7, and visitors under 20 go free. Hours are daily except Tuesday, 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 17:00, and the venues close on 25 December. The shows to see are dated: at Palazzo Grassi, Michael Armitage and Amar Kanwar to 10 January 2027, and at Punta della Dogana, Lorna Simpson and Paulo Nazareth to 22 November 2026.

Punta della Dogana from the Grand Canal. Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Fortuny and Palazzo Mocenigo

Both €15 · Fortuny closed Tuesdays, Mocenigo closed Mondays

The Fortuny Museum is a Gothic palace that Mariano Fortuny turned into his private studio. Palazzo Mocenigo is the museum of textiles and costume, with a perfume section. Both are on the Museum Pass, and the Fortuny is on the modern-art combined ticket.

The Correr and the Doge’s Palace

The Museo Correr fills the Napoleonic Wing and part of the Procuratie Nuove on the Square, and it has no ticket of its own to buy first: it is on the €35 St Mark’s Square Museums ticket with the Doge’s Palace, the Archaeological Museum and the Marciana Library rooms. Doge’s Palace tickets has the prices, the Secret Itineraries tour and the hours.

Ca’ d’Oro, closed

The Galleria Franchetti at Ca’ d’Oro has been closed since 2 February 2026 for restoration and a new display, and the regional museums authority expects it to reopen in spring 2027. The Gothic front on the Grand Canal can still be seen from the water, and the vaporetto stop is Ca’ d’Oro, on line 1.

The Dorsoduro Museum Mile

A paid ticket at the Accademia, Palazzo Cini, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection or Punta della Dogana gives a reduced ticket at the other three within seven days.

The Accademia Bridge. Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Plan it for Wednesday to Sunday: the Accademia is shut on Mondays, and the Peggy Guggenheim and Punta della Dogana on Tuesdays.

What to see

1. Venetian painting: the Accademia, for Giorgione, Tintoretto and Veronese.
2. A modern collection in a palace on the canal: the Peggy Guggenheim.
3. The 18th century at home: Ca’ Rezzonico.
4. Klimt in Venice: Ca’ Pesaro.
5. Contemporary art: Punta della Dogana, with Palazzo Grassi on the same ticket.

What to skip: Palazzo Mocenigo, a textile, costume and perfume museum, if the list is paintings.

Venice churches covers the Frari, with Titian, and the free churches. What to book before you go to Venice has the closed-day table for every sight, and Venice in one or two days and 3 days in Venice fit the museums around the Monday and Tuesday closures. The Venice Biennale 2027 is the other art visit. To stay in Dorsoduro, see where to stay in Venice.