Mocenigo Palace Ticket to the Museum of Textiles and Costumes

Duration

1 to 2 hours

Overview

Discover Palazzo Mocenigo and walk through twenty rooms on the first piano nobile, thereby doubling the initial amount of exhibition space opened in 1985. As a whole, the rooms skilfully evoke various aspects of the life and activities of the Venetian nobility between the 17th and 18th centuries.

Explore the large building of gothic origin extensively rebuilt at the beginning of the 17th century when it attained its present appearance. From the 17th century, the palazzo was the residence of the San Stae branch of the Mocenigo family, one of the most important families of the Venetian patriciate. Many of the rooms are decorated with paintings celebrating the family's glories, the climax of which was when Alvise IV was doge, (1763-1778). In the five rooms devoted to perfume, multimedia and sensory experiences are alternated in an unprecedented process of information, emotion, deepening. Of particular note are also the root wood doors and engraved, gilded cornices.

Participants enjoyed this museum, it gave them a feel of 17th and 18th Venice. They loved the textiles and perfume information and history. Recommended to anyone interested in history, appreciate beautiful textiles, and costumes.