Museo del Settecento Veneziano

Open: 10-18/17 (April to October/November to March). 
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The Museo del Settecento Veneziano is housed in the  Ca'Rezzonico, which was acquired, in 1935, by the City of Venice to display its wonderful collection of 18th century Venetian art and artefacts. 

Hugh Honour writes in The Companion Guide to Venice: "This is one of the most delightful museums I know. So skilfully is it arranged that it seems to have the authentic atmosphere of a great eighteenth-century house, and one is seldom aware that many of its furnishings and pictures, including whole ceilings, have been brought together from a number of different palaces. To wander through its many rooms is to enter the carnival world of eighteenth-century Venice."

My own favourite exhibits are the frescoes from the Tiepolo family house at Zianigo, the work of Domenico Tiepolo, the son of the famous Gianbattista Tiepolo. 

At the back of Ca'Rezzonico lies its thoroughly delightful walled garden, which keeps the same hours as the eponymous palazzo (closed Tuesdays). The garden was designed, in a formal, geometric style, by the architect Giorgio Bellavitis and laid out in 2002. ​

Ca' Rezzonico

The Swing of Pulcinello by Giandomenico Tiepolo