A Venetian palazzo where Renaissance painting, domestic life, contemporary art and Carlo Scarpa’s architecture meet water at eye level.
The core is the former Querini family residence, preserved as a house museum with paintings, furniture, porcelain, clocks, globes, Murano chandeliers, musical instruments and tapestries. Jacopo Guarana’s ceiling decorations were created in 1790, while the galleries retain the atmosphere of an aristocratic Venetian home rather than a neutral museum.
Collection highlights
Giovanni Bellini — Presentation at the Temple
Pietro Longhi’s Venetian society
The Intesa Sanpaolo Collection
Contemporary grafts
One of Venice’s most rewarding small institutions.
Querini Stampalia is essential if architecture forms part of the trip: Scarpa alone justifies the visit.
Begin with Scarpa while your attention is fresh, but return to the ground floor at the end.
About the venue
About
Querini Stampalia is not simply another historic collection: it is one of Venice’s most intelligent conversations between inheritance and reinvention.
Worth the trip
Come for one of Carlo Scarpa’s most poetic interiors, but stay for the unusually complete experience: a lived-in Venetian house, Renaissance and eighteenth-century painting, a public library, contemporary interventions and temporary exhibitions distributed through a building that never settles into a single period.
