National Archaeological Museum of Venice

The National Archaeological Museum of Venice, situated in the Procuratie Nuove, can be legitimately defined as the heir of the ancient Public Statuary of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, the founding nucleus of the collection partially rearranged in the Vestibule of the National Library of St. Mark’s.

The Archaeological Museum boasts an extraordinary collection of Roman and Greek sculptures, as well a large number of ancient coins, marvellous gems and cameos, bronze artefacts, pottery, Egyptian and Assyrian-Babylonian antiques and prestigious findings from the Late Antiquity period.

It originated in the sixteenth century, for the donations of Venetian families, thus acquiring a collector's character.

It houses a collection of antiquities, the result of Venetian collecting, with examples of Greek sculptures from the 5th-4th century BC, the Galati Grimani, portraits from the Roman period, reliefs, inscriptions, ceramics, ivories, gems and a numismatic collection.