Venice · Castello
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
A patrician house museum with a ground floor rebuilt by Carlo Scarpa to let the water in
Scarpa's garden and entrance, designed so that high tide flows through channels rather than damage
A Venetian family left its palace, library and collection to the city in 1868. The reason architects come is the ground floor: Carlo Scarpa rebuilt it between 1959 and 1963 in concrete, brass, marble and water, accepting that the acqua alta would come in and designing channels to let it flow through and out again.
Upstairs the historic apartments hold Venetian painting and furniture, and the small garden at the back is one of the few in the centre open to the public.
The detail
Good to know
- Bequest
- 1868, Querini Stampalia family
- Ground floor
- Carlo Scarpa, 1959 to 1963
- Also
- Historic apartments and a public library
- Garden
- Small, by Scarpa, open to visitors
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