Museo Correr

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The Museo Correr is the civic museum of Venice, located in the prominent Piazza San Marco, facing the basilica of the same name, and partially occupies and is entered by way or the Napoleonic wing of the bureaucratic buildings, or Procuratie, framing three-quarters of the piazza.

The museum on the second floor flows into the Procuratie Nuova designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi. The Ala Napoleonica was built after the occupying French razed the small church of San Gimigniano that faced the opulent Byzantine Basilica di San Marco.

The Museum holds art, documents, artifacts, and maps that chart the history and daily life of Venice across the century. The Napoleonic Wing has sumptuous Neoclassical decroration and houses a noteworthy collection of works by Antonio Canova.