S3 Ep.20 - Not Just Canals — The Museums That Make Venice Breathe
Venice is a museum without walls — but behind her doors, each palace tells a different story.
In this episode, Monica takes you through the city’s most fascinating museums — places where beauty, history, and imagination still breathe.
In this episode:
- 🕯️ Ca’ Rezzonico — the Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice, where frescoes, chandeliers, and candlelight revive the world of Tiepolo and Longhi.
- 🎭 Casa di Carlo Goldoni — the intimate home of Venice’s great playwright, filled with laughter, marionettes, and the rhythm of daily life.
- 💎 Palazzo Mocenigo — a sensual journey through silk, scent, and Venetian elegance.
- 🌙 Palazzo Fortuny — Mariano Fortuny’s poetic atelier, where fabric, light, and invention meet.
- 🏛️ Palazzo Grimani — a Renaissance collector’s dream, filled with myth, marble, and classical echoes.
- 📚 Fondazione Querini Stampalia — art, architecture, and reflection in perfect balance, with Carlo Scarpa’s serene touch.
- 🦴 Museo di Storia Naturale — fossils, skeletons, and the living science behind the lagoon.
- 🎨 Ca’ Pesaro — a Baroque palace reborn as a home for modern art, where Klimt, Rodin, and Boccioni share space with the shimmer of the Grand Canal.
- 🪞 Palazzo Cini Gallery — an elegant Dorsoduro haven of Renaissance treasures, from Botticelli to Piero di Cosimo.
- 🧵 Museo del Merletto, Burano — a hymn to patience and grace, where women turned thread and air into lace.
💬 A gentle walk through palaces, studios, and stories — discovering the many ways Venice keeps her art alive.
🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you tune in.
✨ Credits:
Hosted by Monica Cesarato
Produced by Monica Cesarato, Sentire Media
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