Ca' d'Oro is closed. The Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro has been shut to the public since 2 February for the final phase of a restoration and redisplay of the whole palace, and the museum gives spring 2027 as the expected reopening (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, 2026). No admission price is on sale: the ticket page now carries the closure notice where the tariff used to be.
The palace stands on the Grand Canal in Cannaregio, at Cannaregio 3932, and holds the collection that Baron Giorgio Franchetti gave to the Italian state in 1916 along with the building itself, opened as a gallery in 1927 (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, 2026). It is a state museum under the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Veneto of the Ministry of Culture, so it has never been part of the civic Venice Museum Pass.
The closure has sent the collection's best known painting out of the city. Andrea Mantegna's Saint Sebastian is on show in Rimini beside Giovanni Bellini's restored Pieta, in an exhibition the Comune di Rimini lists from 18 July 2026 (Comune di Rimini, 2026). This page sets out what is closed, what can still be seen, and what is open nearby instead.
Is Ca' d'Oro open in 2026?
No. The museum has been closed to the public since 2 February, and both the opening hours page and the ticket page now carry the same single line in place of their tables: the museum is closed because of restoration and redisplay work in progress (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, 2026). Nothing is on sale, so there is no 2026 admission price to quote and no online booking to make.
The full closure followed a run of temporary closures of the exhibition rooms on the first and second floors, which is why some guidance still describes the gallery as partly open. The official announcement is explicit that the whole museum closed on 2 February for the final phase of the works, and that the disruption was expected to last the whole year.
The guided visit page has not been withdrawn, but it offers visits only on the occasion of particular events, so it is not a route into the building while the museum is shut. The number published for information is +39 041 5238790. Treat any site selling Ca' d'Oro admission for a 2026 date as out of date, because the museum's own ticket page sells nothing.
What the restoration covers and when Ca' d'Oro reopens
The reopening is set for spring 2027. The museum's announcement gives that date and describes the scope: a complete restyling of the rooms and of the display layout, a revision of the visitor routes, new climate control and lighting, and work on accessibility and safety, with the entrance and service spaces added to the programme (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, 2026).
The project began in 2023 and is due to conclude in 2027. It is funded by the Fondazione Venetian Heritage with the Fondazione Giulio e Giovanna Sacchetti through a donation of 10 million euro, and the museum describes it as a joint public and private undertaking with the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Veneto (Venetian Heritage, 2026).
The reason for a project this size is the display itself. The arrangement visitors saw until February dated from the 1970s and had been reworked piecemeal over the decades. The published scope covers the interior plaster, the fifteenth-century wooden ceilings, the windows, the loggias and the Venetian terrazzo floors, along with new display cases and display systems, a new entrance, a new stairwell and new visitor services. Updates on the state of the works are promised on the gallery's own site and on those of the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Veneto.
Sources: Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro (2026); Venetian Heritage (2026).
Where is Mantegna's Saint Sebastian while Ca' d'Oro is closed?
The painting has left Venice. Mantegna's Saint Sebastian, the work Franchetti had a marble lined chapel built around and the centre of the collection, is in Rimini, shown beside Giovanni Bellini's Pieta in the Manica Lunga wing of the Luigi Tonini city museum (Comune di Rimini, 2026). The Comune's listing opens the run on 18 July 2026 and carries dates through to 31 December 2026, with the rooms open 10.00 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00 and closed on Mondays. The same listing warns that events can change, so check it before travelling.
The pairing came out of the Venice closure. Bellini's Pieta belongs to the Museo della Citta di Rimini. It was restored at Venetian Heritage's expense in Ca' d'Oro's own conservation laboratory and shown in the gallery from 21 November 2025 to 6 January 2026, hung at the entrance to the first floor facing the freshly restored Mantegna chapel (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, 2025). It then travelled to the Morgan Library and Museum in New York from 15 January to 19 April 2026, and the announcement said it would end at Rimini alongside the Saint Sebastian, an itinerary made possible by the temporary closure in Venice.
One other piece went travelling. The gilded bronze Apollo by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as l'Antico, was shown at the Biennale Internazionale dell'Antiquariato in Florence from 26 September to 4 October 2026 (Venetian Heritage, 2026).
- 21 Nov 2025Ca' d'Oro, VeniceThe restored Pieta shown beside the Mantegna chapel
- 6 Jan 2026Venice showing ends
- 15 Jan 2026Morgan Library, New York
- 19 Apr 2026New York showing ends
- 18 Jul 2026Rimini, with the Saint SebastianManica Lunga of the Luigi Tonini city museum
- 31 Dec 2026Last date listed in Rimini
Sources: Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro (2025); Comune di Rimini (2026).
Do any Venice passes cover Ca' d'Oro?
No Venice city pass reaches it. Ca' d'Oro is a state museum under the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Veneto of the Ministry of Culture (Venetian Heritage, 2026), while the 50 EUR Museum Pass, 25 EUR reduced, is the Fondazione Musei Civici ticket. The Fondazione prints the full list of the twelve sites that pass admits you to, and Ca' d'Oro is not among them, nor is it in any of the four combined civic tickets for St Mark's Square, the eighteenth century museums, modern and contemporary art and the island museums (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026).
What did apply before February was the state scheme for free admission on the first Sunday of the month. The gallery ran it as its own event: its listings record free Sundays on 4 January and 1 February 2026, the last of them three days before the closure (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, 2026).
The museum has published nothing about the terms it will reopen under, so the 2027 admission price and the free days that will apply to it are not yet known. If you hold a Museum Pass bought for a Venice trip, note that it would not have covered Ca' d'Oro even with the doors open, and that it is valid for six months with one admission to each museum on its list.
What you can see from outside, and how to find the palace
The facade is in the open, and it is the reason most visitors come. The palace fronts the Grand Canal at Cannaregio 3932, with its loggias facing the water; the museum's own access note records a step between the entrance and those Grand Canal loggias, and a lift linking the two floors inside (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, 2026). A line 1 vaporetto runs the length of the Grand Canal to the Ca' d'Oro stop and passes the front of the palace on the way, which is the only view available while the doors are shut.
What cannot be seen from the water is the inside of the building, and that includes the two things the gallery singles out in its own description of the palace: the courtyard, with the mosaic pavement Franchetti laid in antique marbles in imitation of an early Christian basilica, and the original well head that Bartolomeo Bon carved in 1427. The ashes of Giorgio Franchetti rest in the entrance hall under a porphyry marker.
For the address itself, the entrance is on the calle that links the Strada Nuova to the ACTV line 1 Ca' d'Oro stop. The museum gives 30 minutes on foot from Santa Lucia station along the Strada Nuova, one minute on foot from the Ca' d'Oro stop, and 10 minutes on foot from Rialto if you arrive from the airport on the Alilaguna orange line. The vaporetto guide covers the fares and the ticket types.
What to visit instead near Ca' d'Oro
Ca' Rezzonico, the civic Museum of 18th Century Venice, is the nearest equivalent: another Grand Canal palace shown with its rooms furnished, and with its own vaporetto stop. Admission is 15 EUR full and 7.50 EUR reduced. In the winter season, 1 November to 31 March, it opens 10.00 to 17.00 with last admission at 16.00; from 1 April to 31 October it stays open to 18.00 with last admission at 17.00. It closes on Tuesdays, and closing procedures begin 30 minutes before the posted time. The Fondazione currently flags scaffolding for restoration work in the Ballroom, with the other rooms open as usual (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026).
For the painting rather than the palace, the Gallerie dell'Accademia is the state collection of Venetian art from the 1300s onwards. Full admission is 15 EUR, it opens Tuesday to Sunday 9.00 to 19.00, and it takes part in the ministry's free first Sunday of the month (Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, 2026). It does not hold the Mantegna, which is in Rimini, so treat it as a substitute for the kind of visit rather than for the particular painting.
Both are a short walk or one vaporetto ride from the Ca' d'Oro stop, and both are open on the days when the Rimini exhibition is closed.
Sources: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (2026); Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia (2026).
What the collection holds, and what the redisplay will change
The gallery's own account of the collection starts with Mantegna's Saint Sebastian, for which Franchetti had a marble lined chapel built, the painting set in an altar that isolates it (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, 2026). The first floor portego holds the Renaissance sculpture: Tullio Lombardo's Double Portrait, modelled on antique funerary sculpture, Gian Cristoforo Romano's Bust of a Boy from Franchetti's own collection, and Jacopo Sansovino's bas relief lunette of the Madonna del bacio. Among the bronzes are Andrea Riccio's reliefs from the church of the Servi and the Apollo by l'Antico, which came from the Pasqualigo collection.
The second floor portego carries the fragmentary frescoes, which the gallery calls of exceptional historical importance among Venice's museums: surviving evidence of the painted decoration that once covered the outside of Venetian buildings. The most significant are the ones the young Titian painted in 1508 on the side facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, brought here after they were detached in 1967. The same floor holds the Dutch and Flemish pictures added in 1929, with Titian's Venus at the Mirror, Paris Bordon's Sleeping Venus, two views by Francesco Guardi, a small Crucifixion attributed to Jan van Eyck and Van Dyck's Portrait of Marcello Durazzo. A section of Venetian ceramics has occupied the adjoining Palazzo Duodo since 1992.
Expect the arrangement to change. The works replace the display layout and revise the visitor route, so room by room guidance written before February 2026 will not survive the reopening.
