Venice, Tribune displays at Palazzo Grimani will remain permanent

The installations of the Tribuna and the Sala del Doge of Palazzo Grimani in Venice become permanent. The historic Venetian palace, which belonged to Giovanni Grimani, was in fact practically empty until 2019, and has since been refitted with much of the collection of the patriarch of Aquileia as part of the Domus Grimani exhibition(here is a lengthy in-depth look at the history of the palace and the refitting).

Domus Grimani had begun in May 2019 and ended last November 27: the result of a collaboration between the Veneto Regional Museums Directorate and the Venetian Heritage foundation, the intervention was the first step in a strategy to enhance and promote the Museum of Palazzo Grimani. Curated by Daniele Ferrara, director of the Veneto Regional Directorate of Museums, and Toto Bergamo-Rossi, director of Venetian Heritage, the project originated in May 2019 with the return of some of the most valuable sculptures from Giovanni Grimani’s collection relocated to the Tribuna, the Camerino delle Antichità designed by Giovanni to house the most precious marbles in his collection. At the same time, the rooms leading to the Tribuna (the Camaron d’Oro, the Sala a Fogliami and the Antitribuna) were refitted, recreating the atmosphere of the home of a Venetian Renaissance collector.

Now it has been decided to make the rooms of the palace’s two most spectacular rooms permanent as part of the reorganization activities of the National Archaeological Museum of Venice, to which the works of the Grimani collection belong. Both Palazzo Grimani and the Archaeological Museum are two museums of the Veneto Regional Museums Directorate of the Ministry of Culture. The displays in the Psyche Room, where an intervention brought to light the bas-relief with the Salamander in the flames, will also remain visible. Finally, the 12 canvases made by Georg Baselitz, placed in the 18th-century frames of the Sala del Portego, will also remain: they were granted by the artist on long-term loan to the museum.

From the end of April to November 2022, the museum recorded more than 44.000 visitors, and despite the discontinuity of openings that has characterized the past three years (with closures related to sanitary measures to contain the pandemic, and the exceptional high water that hit Venice in November 2019), the Museum of Palazzo Grimani has managed to maintain a high level of attention to its activities through a successful social strategy on its Instagram and Facebook channels even in the months of closure, as well as a program of events spread over the various months.

Venice, Tribune displays at Palazzo Grimani will remain permanent

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