From March 6, 2026, theDoge’s Apartment in the Doge’s Palace in Venice will host the exhibition Etruschi e Veneti. Waters, Cults and Sanctuaries, an exhibition project with a broad scientific and popular scope in order to investigate the fundamental role of water in the dimension of the sacred and in the process of formation and development of the societies of two of the most important civilizations of pre-Roman Italy: the Etruscans and the Veneti.
The exhibition aims to highlight how water represented not only a vital resource for human settlement, but also how it characterized worship and the relationship with the divine, assuming a central function in the religious and social organization of these peoples.
The project, curated by Margherita Tirelli and Chiara Squarcina, is organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici del Comune di Venezia under the patronage of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi e Italici and carried out in collaboration with the Fondazione Luigi Rovati. The exhibition will bring together relevant archaeological finds, many of them previously unpublished and from recent excavation campaigns, made visible to the public thanks to prestigious loans from leading Italian museum institutions.
The exhibition will be presented on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. at the Spadolini Hall of the Ministry of Culture in Rome in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, the President of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Mariacristina Gribaudi, the President of the Fondazione Luigi Rovati, Giovanna Forlanelli Rovati, the curator of the exhibition and scientific director Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Chiara Squarcina, and the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro.
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