Venice National Archaeological Museum

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia
Established	1523 by the Cardinal Domenico Grimani
Location	Piazza San Marco 52, 30124 Venice, Italy
Type	Art museum, Historic site
Director	Michela Sediari

The National Archaeological Museum (Italian: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia) is a museum located right on Piazza San Marco in Venice.

The National Archaeological Museum was established in 1523 by Cardinal Domenico Grimani. This Museum has a great collection of Greek and Roman sculptures, ceramics, coins and stones dating back as far as the 1st Century B.C. Some of the archeological collections from the Correr Museum are also housed here.

Visitors can also view the elegant vases, impeccable ivories, portraits of long-ago Roman emperors, marbles and busts, gems and jewelry in this museum. Numerous treasured relics of Assyro-Babylonian, Greek, Tuscan, Roman and Egyptian origins will enlighten the visitors seeking pieces of Neolithic Age. Visitors will relish other highlights such as the Armenian-Venetian collection, legal texts dating back to the 17th Century, and bilingual dictionaries.

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Piazza San Marco

Piazza	Loggetta del Sansovino Procuratie Caffè Florian Caffè Quadri Museo Correr National Archaeological Museum St Mark's Basilica St Mark's Campanile St Mark's Clocktower

Piazzetta	Biblioteca Marciana Columns of San Marco and San Todaro Lion of Venice Doge's Palace Piombi Zecca

Related	Piazzetta dei Leoncini

Coordinates: 45°26′01″N 12°20′21″E / 45.4336°N 12.3393°E / 45.4336; 12.3393

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