Art Museum

The works in the Picture Gallery, from religious and municipal institutions and donations by private citizens, number about 3000, including canvases by Giorgione and Titian, and offer an ample perspective of Venetian painting from the 14th to the 16th centuries.

The paintings, which follow a chronological path, were executed by the most important artists in Italian art history. Examples are the precious Cross, which Giotto painted in about 1300 for the famous Scrovegni Chapel, and paintings by Guariento, who was the first painter at the court of the Carrara family and who inaugurated the Paduan school.

The Art Museum also contains a collection of sculptures, with works by Briosco, Vittoria and Canova, from the 14th to the 18th centuries, and decorative and architectural fragments of inscribed stone tablets.

Info:
City Museums, Piazza Eremitani 8
tel. +39 049 8204551
fax +39 049 8204585
Open from Tuesday to Sunday: 09:00 am - 7:00 pm
Closed: Mondays (unless public holidays), January 1, May 1, December 25 and 26.
The Scrovegni Chapel is open, even on Mondays.
for tickets click here

To reach Palazzo Zuckermann, City Museums and Scrovegni Chapel:
from train station: buses 3, 10, 12; Sundays and holidays: buses 32, 42.
by car and coach: motorway exit Padova Est, parking at Fiera (Fair): shuttle bus service from Via Tommaseo to centre of city; or motorway exits Padova Sud and Padova Ovest, parking in Prato della Valle, with shuttle bus service to centre of town, Via Valeri (off Via Trieste), Piazza Insurrezione.