Ca' Pesaro

The Ca' Pesaro — International Gallery of Modern Art — is a baroque marble palace turned museum in Santa Croce, Venice. Some well-known masterpieces showcased here include Klimt's Judith Ⅱ, Chagall's Rabbi of Vitebsk, and works by Kandinsky, Klee, Moore and others.

The artworks of a broad spectrum of modern artists from the 19th and 20th centuries have contributed to making this museum an essential part of Venice's culture and history. In addition, on the palace's third floor is the Oriental Art Museum which houses a collection of traditional Japanese and some Chinese and Islamic antiquity.The Ca' Pesaro palace was designed by the famed Venetian architect Baldassarre Longhena for the aristocratic Pesaro family in the 17th century. After the death of the last member of the Pesaro family in 1830, the museum was acquired and exchanged multiple times. Finally, Duchess Felicita Bevilacqua La Masa donated it to the city in 1898, and it became a Modern Art Museum. Frescoes by twentieth-century artists like Boccioni, De Pisis, Sironi, Morandi, De Chirico and Burri can be seen on the museum's interior. In addition, a part of the Ca' Pesaro is dedicated to photographs and over 6000 films.