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Ca' Pesaro is a Baroque marble palace on the Grand Canal, designed by Baldassare Longhena in the mid-17th century and completed by Gian Antonio Gaspari in 1710. It houses the International Gallery of Modern Art, built up largely from works bought at the early Venice Biennales, and on its top floor the Museum of Oriental Art.

The Natural History Museum of Venice occupies the Fondaco dei Turchi, a 13th-century Veneto-Byzantine palace on the Grand Canal that served as the trading house of Turkish merchants from 1621 to 1838. A museum since 1923, it shows fossils, including the skeleton of the dinosaur Ouranosaurus, whale skeletons and zoological and ethnographic collections.

The House of Carlo Goldoni is the Gothic Palazzo Centani in San Polo, where the playwright Carlo Goldoni was born in 1707. A courtyard with a 15th-century open staircase and a carved well-head leads to a small museum on his life and theatre, with a reconstructed 18th-century puppet theatre, and to a library of theatre studies.

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is a large brick Gothic church of the Franciscans in the San Polo district, built over the 14th and 15th centuries and consecrated in 1492. Inside are Titian's Assumption of the Virgin on the high altar and his Pesaro Madonna, a carved monks' choir, and the monuments to several doges, Titian and Canova.

The Scuola Grande di San Rocco is the seat of a lay confraternity founded in 1478, in a marble Renaissance building in the San Polo district completed in 1560. Its halls are covered with paintings by Tintoretto and his workshop, made between 1564 and 1587, including the large Crucifixion in the Sala dell'Albergo.

The Museo Correr is the civic museum of Venetian art and history on St Mark's Square, in the Napoleonic Wing and the Procuratie Nuove. It grew from the collection Teodoro Correr left to the city in 1830, and shows sculptures by Antonio Canova, the Neoclassical rooms of the former royal palace, and paintings by Giovanni Bellini and Carpaccio.

Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian as San Zanipolo, is a Gothic brick basilica of the Dominicans in the Castello district, completed in 1430. From the 15th century the funerals of the doges were held here, and twenty-five doges are buried inside. Verrocchio's equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni stands in the square beside it.

St Mark's Basilica is the cathedral of Venice, on Piazza San Marco beside the Doge's Palace. Built from 1063 on a Byzantine cross plan crowned by five domes, it is lined inside with gold-ground mosaics; the Pala d'Oro altarpiece, the museum and the terrace with the bronze Horses of St Mark can also be visited.

The Doge's Palace was the residence of the Doge and the seat of government of the Republic of Venice. Its Gothic facades on the waterfront and the Piazzetta date mainly from the 14th and 15th centuries; visitors see the council halls, with paintings by Tintoretto and Veronese, and cross the Bridge of Sighs to the former prisons.

The Gallerie dell'Accademia is Venice's main gallery of art from the 14th to the 18th century, housed in the former church, convent and Scuola Grande of Santa Maria della Carità in Dorsoduro. It shows Venetian painting by Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese; Leonardo's Vitruvian Man is also in the collection.

San Giorgio Maggiore is a Benedictine church on the island of the same name, facing St Mark's Basin across the water from the Piazzetta. Designed by Andrea Palladio and built between 1566 and 1610, it has a white classical facade and a bright interior; the presbytery holds Tintoretto's Last Supper and The Gathering of the Manna.

The Naval History Museum occupies a 15th-century granary of the Venetian Republic beside the Arsenale. Founded after the First World War and owned by the Italian Navy, it shows ship models, weapons and naval relics on five floors; the ticket also covers the Ships Pavilion in the Arsenale's former oar workshop, where historic boats are displayed.

The Murano Glass Museum traces the history of glassmaking from antiquity to the present, with the focus on Murano's own glass. Founded in 1861 by the abbot Vincenzo Zanetti, it occupies the Gothic Palazzo Giustinian, once the residence of the bishops of Torcello, and has been one of the Venice civic museums since 1923.

The Burano Lace Museum is in the former palace of the Podestà of Torcello on Piazza Galuppi, the main square of the island of Burano, which housed the Burano lace school from 1872 to 1970. Founded in 1978 and run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, it traces Venetian and lagoon lace from its origins to the present through pieces, drawings and documents.

The Museo Provinciale di Torcello occupies two medieval buildings on the main square of Torcello, beside the island's cathedral. Founded in 1872, it shows archaeological finds from the lagoon and the mainland in the Palazzo dell'Archivio, and early Christian and medieval works from the islands in the Palazzo del Consiglio.