Palazzo Grimani Visitor Guide 2026

What to See and in What Order

The museum route is a single loop through the courtyard and the piano nobile, ending in the Tribuna. This is the order you'll follow.

1. The courtyard Enter through the marble portal from Ramo Grimani into the square courtyard, modelled on a Roman house. Look at the loggia by the museum entrance, with its stucco baskets of fruit and vegetables.
2. The monumental staircase Climb under Federico Zuccari's barrel vault of 1563–1565: allegories of the patron's virtues, grotesques and stucco creatures based on ancient cameos.
3. Camerino di Apollo and Camerino di Callisto Two small studies with stucco by Giovanni da Udine and, in the Apollo room, frescoes by Francesco Salviati. Intimate rooms meant for a scholar's pleasure.
4. Sala del Doge Antonio Named after the doge who bought the house, dressed in polychrome marbles and stucco.
5. Sala a Fogliami (Room of Foliage) Camillo Mantovano's ceiling of fruit trees, flowers and animals. Take time to find the birds and the predators among the leaves.
6. Sala del Camino and Sala di Psiche The fireplace with its gaping grotesque monster, then the room with the old copy of Salviati's Psyche painting from the lost ceiling.
7. The Tribuna The climax: a square room under a coffered lantern, with ancient sculptures from Giovanni Grimani's collection on its walls and Ganymede carried off by the eagle in the centre of the vault.
8. Second-floor exhibition If a temporary show is on, finish upstairs, where contemporary art meets the palace's bare Renaissance spaces.

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