Consultation of the research tools and photographic material is open to anyone interested and can be carried out on site, upon previous booking.
Research
Services
The scientific services attached to the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia are of fundamental importance, maintaining constant exchange with the international scholarly community and providing indispensable support to researchers across many related disciplines.
LIBRARY SERVICES
The museums’ specialized libraries are of particular importance, preserving important manuscripts and prints, as well as monografies and periodicals related to the history and art of Venice (Museo Correr Library), fashion and costumes from the 17th century to today (Palazzo Mocenigo Museum Library), the Venetian theater and the performing arts in general, with documents from the 17th to the 20th century (Carlo Goldoni’s House Library), natural sciences (Natural History Museum Library) and Modern and Contemporary Art (Ca’ Pesaro Library).
ONLINE CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS
The online catalogue gives access to a database of the considerable historical, artistic, and natural heritage preserved in the Civic Museums of Venice.
Currently, there are almost 50,000 files, created in accordance with the standards of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage’s Central Institute of Catalogues and Documentation, and is continuously updated by the Cataloguing Centre of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the scientific personnel in the individual museums.
ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC
The Photographic Archive of the Musei Civici di Venezia, located at the Correr Museum, functions as a photographic library, with two main sections of materials:
1. “Museums”, with reproductions of artworks belonging to the Musei Civici di Venezia;
2. “Various collections”, with reproduction of various works, landscape reproductions of the city of Venice and artworks of other museums out of the Musei Civici di Venezia.
PRINTS & DRAWIGS CABINET
The Department of Drawings and Prints of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia is one of the leading institutions for the study of Venetian graphic art. Its collections comprise approximately 8,000 historic drawings and more than 60,000 prints dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
The holdings are particularly rich in works by Venetian masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while also including earlier examples by artists such as Ercole de’ Roberti, Jacopo Bassano and Palma il Giovane. The print collection documents virtually all the great masters, from Renaissance Dutch and German engravers to the major series of prints published in eighteenth-century Venice by artists including Canaletto and Anton Maria Zanetti.
