Venice, a mile-long museum route in the Dorsoduro sestiere

Crossing eight centuries of art in a Venetian sestiere: the Dorsoduro Museum Mile restarts in the city of the lagoon, thanks to the collaboration between cultural institutions based in the Dorsoduro sestiere. The Accademia Gallery, the Palazzo Cini Gallery, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana united for a cultural itinerary just over a mile long.

The Dorsoduro Museum Mile, conceived in 2015, provides integrated itineraries, shared communication and discounts on entrance fees to the aforementioned museum venues. From the masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance Venetian painting at the Gallerie dell’Accademia to the protagonists of the contemporary art scene at Punta della Dogana, via the historic museum houses of Vittorio Cini and Peggy Guggenheim, which house the collections of these great patrons.

It starts on September 18 with the activation of a special discount aimed at visitors to each museum on the circuit: in fact, it will be enough to show a paid ticket from one of the institutions involved in the project to have access to the others at exclusive rates. In particular, those who buy a ticket at one of the museums in Dorsoduro or have a Membership Card from one of the partner institutions will enjoy a special reduction on the purchase of the admission ticket: from €15 to €13 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, from €15 to €12 at Punta della Dogana, including Palazzo Grassi, from €10 to €7 at the Palazzo Cini Gallery, and from €12 to €9 at the Gallerie dell’Accademia. To enjoy the concessionary rate, a valid entrance ticket must be shown at the ticket office.

Giulio Manieri Elia, director of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, says, “The relaunch of the Dorsoduro Museum Mile today is based on forms of collaboration between cultural institutions of such different natures, but active in the same context and united in the common intent of meeting the new needs and sensibilities of the public. The continuous updating of communication and promotion strategies and the ever renewed attention to the visitor, together with the quality of the cultural proposal, especially in these changing and complex times constitute a priority in our museum offer.”

The plurality of horizons included in the path of the Dorsoduro Museum Mile," emphasizes the director of the Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Institute of Art History, Luca Massimo Barbero, “has been the reason for its conception from the very beginning. Thinking of traversing the ’time of art history’ in such a comprehensive way, from the Middle Ages to the most vivid contemporary times, makes this very rich itinerary, spread over such a dense segment of Dorsoduro, an opportunity unrepeatable in other cities. Traveling through art is an extraordinary form of enriching thought and returning to see works finally live.”

"Today, more than ever, the city needs choral projects like the Dorsoduro Museum Mile," adds Karole P. B. Vail, director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, “which was born from the synergistic union of Venetian institutions that, like us, believe in the soothing power of art and beauty. In this our relation to a new present, in which the enjoyment of art, no longer only remotely, has a fundamental therapeutic role, we are happy to be able to guide our audiences on an ideal journey that unites the treasures of antiquity with the masterpieces of the contemporary, passing through the great masters of modern art.”

"Relaunching today such an ambitious initiative as Dorsoduro Museum Mile," says Bruno Racine, Director and Managing Director of Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana, “and enriching it with new opportunities for visitors, is a sign of the need to think collectively, a synergistic response to the crisis we are experiencing. To offer the public the chance to retrace the history of art through the collections of public and private institutions that, together, represent a high-level cultural proposal in one of the most evocative areas of the city of Venice.”

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Venice, a mile-long museum route in the Dorsoduro sestiere

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