Venice Carnival Museum Entry Ticket

Explore the Venice Carnival Museum
in Palazzo Dolcetti on the Zattere

The Venice Carnival Museum is a private museum in Palazzo Dolcetti on Fondamenta Zattere al Ponte Lungo. With this ticket you can enter the museum, view the permanent exhibition and explore the museum spaces freely in an immersive exhibition accompanied by music. Staff on site are there to help.

Follow the history of Carnival through five exhibition spaces

Paintings, sculptures, ceramics and historic costumes from the private collection of Arnold Uvarov are displayed across three centuries, from the 18th to the 20th. You can see works by internationally known artists such as Gino Severini, Joan Miró and James Holland, as well as artists close to Venetian traditional crafts such as Gemignano Cozzi and Luigi Fabris.

Oil paintings from the first half to the middle of the 1900s capture Venetian cityscapes and festive Carnival moments. The collection also includes Fabris's sculptures on the theme of masks and a Delphos dress by Mariano Fortuny.

The final room leads to works by Picasso and Cocteau

The fifth room explores how Carnival continued through 20th-century and contemporary art. Commedia dell'arte characters such as Harlequin, Pulcinella and Pierrot reappear in works by Picasso, Cocteau and Severini as symbols of freedom and transformation. The room also holds two works signed by Picasso and a plate signed by Jean Cocteau.

Visit quietly near St. Mark's

The museum is about a 15-minute walk from St. Mark's Square. It runs as a small group limited to 10 participants, and wheelchair access is available.

※ Food and drinks, indoor smoking (including e-cigarettes), alcohol and drugs, touching the exhibits and making noise are not allowed inside the museum.