Venice's great art museums: a visit to Dorsoduro

From the San Marco district, you can walk to Dorsoduro and the Galleria dell'Accademia via the bridge of the same name: this wooden and metal structure spans the Grand Canal, creating one of the most picturesque sites in Venice.

The Accademia Gallery houses sumptuous works of Venetian art: it is the benchmark for Renaissance paintings, featuring the great masters of the Serenissima from the 14th to the 18th century. The various rooms feature monumental Renaissance altarpieces, paintings by Bellini and his pupil Giorgione, and canvases by Veronese and Tintoretto.

📍 Address: Campo

della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050

⏰ Academy Gallery opening times:

• Tuesday to Sunday, 8.15am - 7.15pm (last admission 6.15pm).
• Monday 8.15am - 2pm (last admission 1pm)

👛 Ticket prices:

• Full price: €12 (€1.50 online booking fee)
• Concession: €2 (+€1.50 online booking fee)

👉 Ticket purchase:¨NBSP;

Directly on site, or online on the Galerie de l'Académie website.

Just a 5-minute walk from the Accademia Gallery, a second institution stands on the banks of the Grand Canal: in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, at the tip of the Dorsoduro, the Collezione Peggy Guggenheim will appeal to lovers of modern art.

Peggy Guggenheim, collector and patron of the arts, has assembled here one of the finest collections of twentieth-century art in Europe. Here you can admire works by Brancusi, Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst, not to mention Jackson Pollock. You can also visit the palace gardens, home to some elegant sculptures.

📍 Address:

Dorsoduro, 701-704

⏰ Peggy Guggenheim Collection opening hours:

• Open daily from 10am to 6pm. Last admission at 5.15pm.

👛 Ticket prices:

• Adults: €16
• Over 65s: €14
• Students: €9
• Under 10s: free

👉 Ticket purchase:

Directly on site, or online on the Peggy Guggenheim Collection website.

We continue this tour of Venice's cultural institutions with the Punta della Dogana, at the very tip of Dorsoduro. The site itself is magnificent: the building corresponds to the old customs office (hence its name), at the entrance to the Grand Canal and the church of San Giorgio Maggiore.

Venice's latest contemporary art centre, the Punta della Dogana, taken over by the Pinault Collection, opened its doors in 2009. This prestigious venue regularly hosts temporary exhibitions, so keep an eye on the programme! If you want to admire works of contemporary art all year round, the Pinault Collection is also based in Venice at the Palazzo Grassi, on the San Marco side of the Grand Canal.

📍 Address: Punta

della Dogana, Dorsoduro, 2 / Palazzo Grassi, San Samuele 3231

⏰ Opening times:

• Depending on temporary exhibitions for Punta della Dogana.
• Palazzo Grassi is open every day from 10am to 7pm. Last admission at 6pm.

👛 Ticket prices:

• Full price: €15
• Concession: 12€

👉 Ticket purchase:¨NBSP;

Directly on site, or online on the Palazzo Grassi website.

A must-see at the tip of the Dorsoduro, La Salute is one of Venice's most iconic churches: its location at the mouth of the Grand Canal, which is particularly well chosen for photos, is no doubt a factor.

And even if the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute is not strictly speaking a museum, it's easy to be mistaken by the works of great masters such as Titian, Tintoretto (including the famous Marriage at Cana) or Palma the Younger that it houses beneath its baroque airs...