Experiential museum dedicated to Casanova opens in Venice on April 2

A museum entirely dedicated to Giacomo Casanova (Venice, 1725 - Duchov, 1798), the famous Venetian libertine, writer and adventurer known for his autobiography Histoire de ma vie and for his fame as a great seducer, is scheduled to open in Venice on April 2, 2018. The new space, which will be called the Casanova Museum & Experience and whose inauguration falls in the year that marks anniversary number 220 of Giacomo Casanova’s death, will not be a traditional museum but, the presentation states, “an exhibition place that induces and leads to an experiential type of museum itinerary, with a high emotional rate.” The venue will be Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, a building dating back to the 15th century.

The museum will offer the chance to retrace the life and works of Giacomo Casanova through a story in images that will be narrated by a “virtual” version of the Venetian adventurer, in a multimedia exhibit curated by ETT Solutions that, the curators promise, will bring the world and time in which Casanova lived to life in the first person: writings, documents, significant moments of his existence will be shown to the public in sets and reconstructions that alternate immersive environments, interactive spaces, moments of collective viewing and others of individual enjoyment to allow a varied experience for the visitor. There are six designed environments in all, and each one delves into a theme of Giacomo Casanova’s story. Each room is equipped with large projections and ambient audio.

“Entering the rooms of the Casanova Museum & Experience,” the presentation reads, “will be like venturing into those eighteenth-century rooms he himself frequented. It will be like conversing about philosophical matters with Voltaire, political intrigue with Madame de Pompadour or staying listening to an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. All characters in close contact with Casanova.” As for how it will be enjoyed, “state-of-the-art technology will allow those conversations to be seen and heard as if they were happening in real time. These are not filmic images, nor frames from historical documentaries, but philological reconstructions of Casanova’s characters and environments through never-before-seen images projected, life-size, along an articulated and surprising exhibition route. That ends with a room symbolic of Casanova’s life: the bedroom, the place closest to the libertine’s collective imagination. An ’alcove’ bed from the 1700s, with its damask draperies perfectly reproduced by the famous Atelier Nicolao, a Venetian symbol specializing in historical reconstructions, will tower over the museum’s last room as if to compendium a myth.”

Visiting times will be dictated by the duration of the audiovisual aids. In all, the entire tour will take 45 minutes, with a scan through the six rooms quantified at seven and a half minutes each. The idea for the museum comes from entrepreneur Carlo Luigi Parodi, and the direction has been entrusted to Andrea Cosentino (a manager by profession, he was director of the Institute of Studies and Research of Civil Defense and Protection), assisted by a scientific committee headed by historian Silvio Calzolari. The museum will be open Monday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets cost 13 euros.

Experiential museum dedicated to Casanova opens in Venice on April 2

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