Mocenigo Palace-Museum
Aristocratic Venetian residence turned museum of historic textiles, fashion and perfume.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Mocenigo Palace-Museum in Venice follows Lazzaro Mocenigo, born in the family palace, who fought the Ottoman Empire through the long Cretan War, taking an arrow at Naxos and losing a finger before an enemy blow cost him an eye at the Dardanelles in 1655. It traces how he kept commanding the Venetian fleet afterward and returned to the same waters two years later. Look up at the frescoed ceiling, painted generations later for a family wedding, before you reach how his story on that second voyage ends.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Palazzo Cini
House-museum gallery of Renaissance Tuscan paintings, ivories and enamels in a Grand Canal palace.
Lace Museum
Historic lace school turned museum, displaying centuries of hand-stitched needle lace from a nearly-lost craft.
Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro
Gothic Grand Canal palace turned art museum, restored stone by stone after a ballerina stripped it bare.
Ca' Rezzonico
Rococo palace on the Grand Canal, its double-height ballroom crowned by a painted sky.
Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art
Baroque Grand Canal palace showing nineteenth and twentieth century painting and sculpture.
Correr Museum
Neoclassical palace museum of Venetian art and history, with the empress Sisi's secluded royal apartments.