Ca' Rezzonico
Last updated on November 9, 2026Hours verified November 2026
Located on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere, Palazzo Rezzonico (also known as Ca' Rezzonico) is an opulent palace that provides a fascinating glimpse into 18th-century Venetian life. It is sumptuously furnished with Baroque and Rococo period pieces, silk wall coverings and Flemish tapestries, together with housing a museum that highlights the importance of luxury goods to the 18th-century Venetian economy.
Challenge to visitors
It closes on Tuesdays, and that is the trip people lose. Most of Venice's civic museums shut on Mondays, so a visitor who has learned that rhythm walks to the Grand Canal on a Tuesday and finds the door shut. The vaporetto stop is at the entrance, which makes the wasted journey a short one but no less annoying.
The ballroom is currently behind scaffolding. The museum reports restoration work in the Salone da Ballo, with all other rooms open as normal. That room is the reason a good many people come, so it is worth checking the museum's notices before building an afternoon around it.
And it is a furnished house, not a picture gallery. The point is the rooms themselves — the ceilings, the lacquer, the eighteenth-century interiors kept whole — and visitors who come expecting a hang of famous paintings walk through it puzzled.
Visiting tips and strategy
When to go
Closed Tuesdays — the detail to fix in your head, because most Venetian civic museums close on Mondays instead.
Winter suits it. The museum is outside the Piazza San Marco corridor and never takes that square's volume, and an eighteenth-century interior with its own lighting loses nothing to a short, grey day.
Late morning is the quietest useful slot; the first hour after opening is good too, though the Grand Canal facade is better lit later.
Check the notices before a special trip. Opening is extended for some events and seasons, restoration work moves between rooms, and both are published on the museum's own page rather than fixed year to year.
Getting the good version
Arrive by water and look up before you go in. Line 1 stops at Ca' Rezzonico, directly at the palace, and the Longhena facade on the Grand Canal is meant to be read from the water — thirty seconds at the rail before you step off does more for the visit than any room inside.
Allow about ninety minutes. It is a furnished palace read room by room rather than a gallery to be swept, and the upper floors hold the Longhi and Guardi paintings most people are surprised to find at the top of a house.
Make it the first of three rather than a single visit. The €20.00 Settecento ticket adds Palazzo Mocenigo and Casa di Carlo Goldoni and runs for three months — one entry each, no need to do them in a day. The three together give the century its grand version, its textile and perfume trade, and its domestic one, which no single museum manages alone.
Not a Tuesday, and not the last hour: the museum begins closing twenty minutes before the stated time.
What it costs
€15.00 full, €7.50 reduced, and unlike the museums on Piazza San Marco this one is a ticket to itself — you are paying for Ca' Rezzonico and nothing else is bundled in.
€20.00 full, €10.00 reduced buys three eighteenth-century museums, not two. The "Musei del Settecento Veneziano" ticket covers Ca' Rezzonico, Palazzo Mocenigo and Casa di Carlo Goldoni, is valid for three months and allows one entry to each — so for five euros more than this museum alone you get two more, and three months to use them.
Reduced applies to ages six to fourteen, students from fifteen to twenty-five, over-65s, Ministry of Culture staff and Rolling Venice cardholders.
Free for residents and those born in the Comune of Venice, children under six, a disabled visitor and their companion, ICOM members, licensed Italian guides with visitors, up to two teachers per school group, and MUVE Friend Card and partner-card holders.
The MUVE pass at €50.00 / €25.00 covers this museum together with the Doge's Palace, Correr, Ca' Pesaro, Museo Fortuny and the rest — worth the arithmetic if Ca' Rezzonico is your third civic museum rather than your first.
Verified against Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, October 2026.
Getting there and getting in
Admission: €15–€10 · Museum of 18th-Century Venice
Prices verified November 2026
Where it is
On the Grand Canal in Dorsoduro, with the Ca' Rezzonico vaporetto stop (Line 1) directly outside the palace — no bridges between the boat and the entrance.
Hours
1 April – 31 October: 10:00–18:00, last entry 17:00.
1 November – 31 March: 10:00–17:00, last entry 16:00.
Closed Tuesdays. Closing procedures begin twenty minutes before the stated time.
Current works
Restoration scaffolding stands in the Salone da Ballo; the museum states that all other rooms are open as normal. Check its notices if that room is your reason for coming.
Tickets
€15.00 full, €7.50 reduced. A combined ticket with Casa di Carlo Goldoni is €20.00 / €10.00, valid three months, one entry each. Bookings through prenotazionivenezia@coopculture.it.
How long
About ninety minutes across the furnished rooms and the upper-floor galleries.
Verified against Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, November 2026.
Place accessibility
The operator describes this one as completely accessible to disabled visitors, and refers to universal accessibility in the building. There is a lift, and Ca' Rezzonico is named among the accessible itineraries the Comune di Venezia signposts as "Venezia Accessibile".
Arriving is unusually easy for Venice. The Ca' Rezzonico vaporetto stop is at the palace itself, so there is no bridge to cross between the boat and the door — in a city where the walk to a museum is usually the hard part, that matters more than anything inside.
A disabled visitor and their companion are admitted free, published in the civic museums' own free-admission list rather than left to be negotiated.
Worth knowing rather than worth worrying about: the Salone da Ballo currently has restoration scaffolding in it, which narrows the circulation in the largest room on the main floor while the work lasts.
Quick facts
- Type: Museum, Historic Place, Palace
- Local name: Ca' Rezzonico (vedi la pagina italiana)
- Visitor access: Open to visitors
- Admission: €15–€10
- Built: 17th and 18th centuries
- Built by: Filippo Bon and Giambattista Rezzonico
- Designed by: Baldassarre Longhena and completed by Giorgio Massari.
Where it is
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Visit responsibly
Ca' Rezzonico contains historic collection objects, decorated interiors and fragile surfaces. Follow the museum's current photography, baggage and distance rules. During restoration, barriers protect both visitors and the collection and should not be crossed.