Venice - Archeological Museum

(Local Name: Museo Archeologico) Only some of the exhibits in the Archeological Museum in Venice are in fact archeological treasures, but the collection offers a unique opportunity to compare Classical archeological finds with "modern" Renaissance art. Here the visitor can see the Classical sculptures that influenced the Renaissance artists of Venice.

The most important exhibits are:

Room 4: eleven Classical Greek korai dressed in chitons (fifth century B.C.)

Room 5: Statue of Apollo.

Room 6: Satyr and nymph embracing.

Room 7: Carved gem-stones.

Room 8: Running Odysseus (Hellenistic); Leda and the Swan; Roman busts

Rooms 9-10: Busts from the Republic and Roman Empire.

Room 11: Byzantine ivory-carvings; St John the Evangelist and St Paul (10th century); St Theodore and St George.

Room 12: Reliefs of centaurs by T. Aspetti.

Room 20: Assyrian reliefs (eighth-seventh centuries B.C.).