FREE GUIDED TOURS ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT PALLADIO MUSEUM IN VICENZA

On Saturdays and Sundays there are free guided tours of the Palladio Museum in Vicenza.

The Palladio Museum tells the life and works of the most famous architect of the last five centuries, Andrea Palladio. The museum is set up in the historic center of Vicenza, in Palazzo Barbaran da Porto, one of the most beautiful buildings of the great architect: it is the only city palace for which Palladio managed to complete the construction site and which also preserves intact sumptuous decorative apparatus: frescoes by Giambattista Zelotti, canvases by Andrea Vicentino, stuccos by Rubini. At the Palladio Museum you discover Palladio’s architecture, but also the society, construction techniques and culture of villas in the Veneto of the sixteenth century, through original drawings, architectural models, ancient books, videos, photographs.

On Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th April at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. there will be free guided tours for the “PALLADIO DESIGNER” exhibition which, on the occasion of the Milan Design Week, aims to tell the story of Palladio’s activity as a designer of some micro architectures such as fireplaces, hand basins, sinks, well rings and a cupboard for Alvise Mocenigo’s coin collection and does so using new digital tools. At the basis of everything is the 3D acquisition of these objects using a commonly used tool: the smartphone.

To discover more:

https://www.palladiomuseum.org/en/