Venice, the private rooms of the Royal Palace open to the public after nearly a century of oblivion

In addition to the usual Correr Museum tour, from July 15 the public will be able to visit the twenty private rooms of the Royal Palace of Venice. Beautifully decorated and furnished, overlooking the Royal Gardens, they were desired and inhabited by the members of as many as three ruling houses (Bonaparte, Habsburg, Savoy) throughout the 19th century until 1920. After nearly a century of oblivion with use for offices and dispersal of the furnishings, the rooms will finally be accessible.

Since the first project, conceived thanks to the collaboration between state organs and the City of Venice, it has taken about fifteen years of research and work: scholars, technicians, expert restorers, artisans heirs of the Venetian tradition, room after room, rediscovering the decorations and tapestries, relocating original furniture and furnishings, have succeeded in recovering all the suggestion that links these rooms to so many illustrious personalities such as Eugène de Beauharnais, Empress Sissi, Maximilian of Hapsburg, King Victor Emmanuel II, and Queen Marguerite of Savoy.

In the rediscovered Royal Palace, what is now possible to admire is due to the union of intent and work between public institutions (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Venezia) and the international private patronage of the French Committee for the Preservation of Venice.

Venice, the private rooms of the Royal Palace open to the public after nearly a century of oblivion

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