Ca' Rezzonico, the Museum of 18th Century Venice, charges 15 EUR full and 7.50 EUR reduced. It opens 10:00 to 18:00 from 1 April to 31 October and 10:00 to 17:00 from 1 November to 31 March, closes on Tuesdays, and stops admitting visitors an hour before closing (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a).
Two other tickets reach the same door. The Museums of 18th Century Venice ticket costs 20 EUR full and 10 EUR reduced, lasts three months and adds Palazzo Mocenigo and Carlo Goldoni's House. The Museum Pass costs 50 EUR full and 25 EUR reduced, lasts six months and covers 12 civic museums including the Doge's Palace (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b). For a visit that stops only here, the single ticket is the cheapest buy, and the worked comparison is in the first section below.
The museum fills a Grand Canal palazzo designed by Baldassare Longhena for the Bon family in the mid seventeenth century, left unfinished after his death in 1682, bought in 1750 by Giambattista Rezzonico and completed within six years by Giorgio Massari. The city bought it in 1935 to hold its eighteenth century collections (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026d). One caveat applies to any visit planned now: a structural scaffold stands in the Ballroom and its ceiling fresco is out of sight, though the rest of the route is open (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026c).
How much are Ca' Rezzonico tickets in 2026?
A single adult ticket is 15 EUR and the reduced ticket is 7.50 EUR, with the museum's own audioguide on the MUVE app included (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a). Work out which of the three tickets fits before you pay, because the gap is real money.
The Museums of 18th Century Venice ticket at 20 EUR covers Ca' Rezzonico, Palazzo Mocenigo and Carlo Goldoni's House, one admission each within three months (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b). Bought separately those three cost 15 EUR, 15 EUR and 7 EUR, so 37 EUR in all (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026i, 2026j). The themed ticket therefore pays for itself the moment you add either of the other two, and the extra 5 EUR over the single ticket is the cheapest upgrade in the civic system.
The 50 EUR Museum Pass only earns its keep when the Doge's Palace is on your list. The St Mark's Square Museums ticket alone is 35 EUR, or 30 EUR booked at least 30 days ahead, so 35 EUR plus 15 EUR for Ca' Rezzonico lands exactly on 50 EUR, level with the pass. One more civic museum after that tips the pass ahead. School groups are quoted at 4.00 EUR per person on the museum page and 5.50 EUR per student on the central ticket page, so group bookings should confirm the rate when they reserve.
Ca' Rezzonico opening hours, last admission and the Tuesday closing
Hours change with the season. From 1 April to 31 October the museum is open 10:00 to 18:00 with last admission at 17:00. From 1 November to 31 March it is open 10:00 to 17:00 with last admission at 16:00. The weekly closing day is Tuesday (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026h).
The hour between last admission and closing is thinner than it looks, because closing procedures begin 30 minutes before the posted time (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026h). Arriving at last admission leaves roughly half an hour of unhurried looking across three floors, which is not enough for a palazzo of this size. A 10:00 or an early afternoon arrival is the practical choice.
Tuesday catches more itineraries than visitors expect, because the Peggy Guggenheim Collection a few hundred metres away is also closed on Tuesdays (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026). The Gallerie dell'Accademia, the third large museum in the same quarter, closes on Mondays instead and runs 9:00 to 19:00 with ticket sales ending at 18:00 (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). A Dorsoduro museum day works best from Wednesday to Sunday. The museum also asks visitors to check its announcements page for one-off changes to hours, which is worth two minutes the night before.
The scaffold in the Ballroom: what you cannot see right now
A large structural scaffold stands in the Ballroom, and the walls together with the ceiling fresco The Chariot of Apollo by Giambattista Crosato and Girolamo Mengozzi Colonna are not visible. Passage through the room is always guaranteed so the visit continues, and the rest of the route, including the works by Giambattista Tiepolo and Canaletto, remains fully accessible (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026c). The notice gives no end date and no ticket reduction.
This is worth stating plainly because the Ballroom ceiling is widely described as a Tiepolo, including in guidebook copy and in older versions of this page. The museum attributes it to Crosato with illusionistic architecture by Mengozzi Colonna, completed in 1751, with Apollo on his chariot at the centre surrounded by allegories of the four parts of the world (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026e).
The Tiepolo ceiling most visitors have in mind is next door. In the winter of 1757, for the wedding of Ludovico Rezzonico and Faustina Savorgnan, Giambattista Tiepolo painted the Nuptial Allegory on the ceiling of the room that now carries its name, again with fictive architecture by Mengozzi Colonna (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026e). That room is open, as are the Throne Room ceiling and the Tiepolo Room with Nobility and Virtue defeating Wickedness of 1744 to 1745. The scaffold removes one ceiling from the visit. Everything else on the first floor stands.
What is on each floor at Ca' Rezzonico
The ground floor holds the ticket desk, cloakroom, bookshop, cafe under the portico and the lift, plus Spazio '700, a multisensory introduction room built to universal accessibility principles. The garden behind the palazzo is open to the public (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026k).
The mezzanine carries the Browning rooms and the Ferruccio Mestrovich Collection, with paintings by Jacopo Tintoretto and Bonifacio de' Pitati. The first floor is the piano nobile: eleven rooms reached by Massari's ceremonial staircase, running from the Ballroom and the Nuptial Allegory Room through the Pastel Room, the Tapestry Room, the Throne Room, the Tiepolo Room, the Library, the Lazzarini Room and the Brustolon Room, the last furnished by Andrea Brustolon (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026e).
The second floor opens with a picture gallery portego holding two early Canaletto views, of the Grand Canal from Ca' Balbi towards Rialto and of Rio dei Mendicanti, then the Giandomenico Tiepolo rooms with frescoes taken from Villa Zianigo and painted between 1759 and 1797, the Punchinello Room among them, and the Longhi Room, which pairs Pietro Longhi's scenes of Venetian life with Tiepolo's Zephyr and Flora of 1732 (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026f). The third floor holds the three intercommunicating rooms of the Ai do San Marchi pharmacy, moved here from Campo San Stin, and the Egidio Martini picture gallery of Venetian painting from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026k).
The Ca' Rezzonico vaporetto stop and the walk from Accademia
The museum sits at Dorsoduro 3136 with its own landing on the Grand Canal, served by vaporetto line 1 at the Ca' Rezzonico stop (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a). On the timetable in force from 14 September 2026, daytime line 1 boats leave Piazzale Roma every 12 minutes from 06:21 to 19:57 and reach Ca' Rezzonico 33 minutes later. From Ferrovia, the stop outside Santa Lucia station, the run takes 30 minutes (ACTV, 2026a).
Early and late services are useful to know. The first southbound boat leaves Piazzale Roma at 05:01 and calls at Ca' Rezzonico at 05:30, and the last call of the night is at 00:10. Going back the other way, boats leave Ca' Rezzonico for the station and Piazzale Roma from 05:05 until 23:35, taking 26 and 29 minutes respectively (ACTV, 2026a). A single 75 minute ticket on the urban network costs 9.50 EUR, a one day pass 25 EUR, two days 35 EUR and three days 45 EUR, with the three day card at 27 EUR for holders of a Rolling Venice card aged 6 to 29 (ACTV, 2026b).
Accademia is the next stop after Ca' Rezzonico, two minutes away by boat (ACTV, 2026a), and the walk between the two is short: from the Accademia bridge, head west through Campo San Barnaba and the calle alongside it. Treat a 9.50 EUR single as a poor deal for one stop and walk it instead.
Who gets reduced or free entry, and is Ca' Rezzonico free on the first Sunday?
The reduced rate of 7.50 EUR covers children aged 6 to 14, students aged 15 to 25, visitors over 65, Venice Rolling Card holders and, for the Museum Pass, ISIC cardholders. Free entry covers residents of Venice, children under 6, visitors with a disability and their helper, ICOM members, licensed tour guides, accompanying teachers on school visits, MUVE partner and Friend Card holders, Art Pass Venice holders and members of Venetian Heritage, Save Venice and the Amici dei Musei (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b). The museum's own page lists children under 5 for free entry where the central ticket page says under 6, so a family travelling with a five year old should carry the central page as the reference.
On the first Sunday question, the answer is no. The free admission list for the civic museums does not include a first Sunday of the month. That scheme belongs to the state museums, which in this quarter means the Gallerie dell'Accademia, free on the first Sunday of each month and on a set list of national holidays (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026).
No timed slot is needed for the Museum Pass, which requires no reservation (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b). One rule does bite at the door: suitcases, trolleys and bulky bags cannot enter the museum, and medium bags, backpacks and umbrellas go to the cloakroom, which is free (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a).
How long to allow, and is Ca' Rezzonico accessible by lift?
Allow about 90 minutes. Three show floors, a mezzanine and the pharmacy rooms take longer than the single Tiepolo ceiling most visitors arrive for, and the second floor Longhi and Zianigo rooms are the part people regret rushing. With the Ballroom under scaffold the first floor moves faster than usual (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026c), so an hour is workable if the day is tight.
There is a lift, and the museum describes itself as fully accessible to visitors with disabilities. The caveat comes from the building: it is a listed historic palazzo, and the museum warns that floors may carry slight slopes, raised thresholds or steps of uneven height, and asks visitors to watch for irregular and slippery surfaces. Social stories and 3D room templates for all three floors can be read in advance, and the ground floor Spazio '700 is designed as a multisensory introduction for every visitor (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a, 2026g). Entry for a visitor with a disability and their helper is free (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b).
One object rewards a detour on the way out. The oldest gondola still in Venice, built in 1947 and named Laura, is exhibited at Ca' Rezzonico (Camuffo, 2023, para. 120). The audioguide runs in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German through the MUVE app and is included in the ticket (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026g).
