Fondazione Querini Stampalia Guide: Tickets, Hours & Pass Compatibility

The Fondazione Querini Stampalia occupies the Querini family's 16th-century palazzo just off Campo Santa Maria Formosa in Castello. A single ticket (EUR 15 adult / EUR 12 reduced), valid for the entire day, covers the family's furnished historic apartments and art collection, the modernist ground floor and garden designed by architect Carlo Scarpa in the early 1960s, and any current temporary exhibition.

The foundation is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00-18:00 (last admission 17:30), closed Mondays. Children under 18 enter free, and the foundation's own site lists Venezia Unica City Pass holders among its free-entry categories as well — confirmed both on the foundation's own page and by its explicit mention in the Venezia Unica City Pass's own published venue list.

Querini Stampalia is one of only two non-MUVE venues bundled into both tiers of the Venezia Unica City Pass (the other is Scuola Grande dei Carmini) — it is INCLUDED on both the San Marco and All Venice tiers, even though it sits outside the city's main civic museum network. It is not part of the MUVE Museum Pass or the Chorus Pass.

The Querini family, one of Venice's oldest patrician houses, built the palazzo in the 16th century. The last count, Giovanni Querini Stampalia, bequeathed the building and its collections to the city in 1869 to found a public library and museum, with the explicit condition that the library remain open in the evening — unusual for the era, and still honored today with extended reading-room hours.

The foundation commissioned architect Carlo Scarpa to redesign the ground floor and garden between 1961 and 1963 after repeated flooding damage, producing one of the 20th century's most celebrated works of Venetian modernist architecture: a composition of water channels, bridges, and bespoke concrete and bronze detailing that lets the Rio dei Mendicanti's tide flow directly through part of the ground floor by design rather than accident.