Palazzo Grassi is the Pinault Collection's exhibition museum on the Grand Canal in San Marco, and one admission ticket covers both it and its sister venue Punta della Dogana. Full price is 20 EUR, reduced 15 EUR, and 7 EUR for visitors aged 20 to 26, with free admission for visitors under 20 and for Pinault Collection members (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 2026). During exhibition periods both venues open daily except Tuesdays, from 10am to 6pm, with last entry at 5pm and a closure on 25 December.
The two buildings work as one museum on opposite banks of the Grand Canal. Palazzo Grassi is an 18th-century palazzo built for the Grassi family by the Venetian architect Giorgio Massari; Punta della Dogana is the former Dogana da Mar customs complex at the tip of Dorsoduro, in a configuration completed in 1682. Both were reworked by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, who opened Palazzo Grassi for the collection in 2006 and Punta della Dogana in 2009, and who added the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi in 2013 (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 2026).
The one point to check before you buy is the calendar. Both venues show temporary exhibitions and open only during exhibition periods, so the official practical information page carries a standing instruction to check exhibition dates before visiting. From 21 March 2027 that changes at Palazzo Grassi, which becomes the home of a permanent exhibition of the Pinault Collection.
Palazzo Grassi tickets: one ticket for two museums
One admission ticket covers the exhibitions at both Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana during the opening months. Full price is 20 EUR, the reduced price is 15 EUR, and visitors aged 20 to 26 pay 7 EUR on presentation of an ID card. Admission is free for Pinault Collection members, for visitors under 20, for visitors with disabilities and one accompanying person, for authorised tour guides, for unemployed visitors with a certificate and for ICOM members (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 2026).
The 15 EUR reduced price has a long list of categories, and several of them are worth knowing before you pay full price: residents of the metropolitan city of Venice, teachers, visitors over 65, groups of 15 or more adults, and holders of a full-price ticket from any of the other Dorsoduro Museum Mile institutions. Membership cards from the Gallerie dell'Accademia, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Fondazione Querini Stampalia and the Fondazione Cini also qualify.
Residents of Venice and students enrolled at the Venetian universities enter free on Wednesdays, and all residents and students in Venice enter free on the first and last day of an exhibition. School groups are admitted only in connection with a booked educational activity.
The institution publishes these prices on its own site. There is no city pass arrangement listed alongside them, so the civic Museum Pass does not get you in here.
Palazzo Grassi opening hours and the Tuesday closure
During exhibition periods, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana are open daily except Tuesdays, from 10am to 6pm. Last entry is at 5pm, and both venues close on 25 December (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 2026). Plan to arrive by about 4pm if you want time in both buildings, because the hour between last entry and closing is not enough for two sites that sit on opposite banks of the Grand Canal.
The official practical information page carries one standing warning: these are temporary-exhibition venues, and they open only during exhibition periods. Check the exhibition dates for the months you are travelling before you plan a visit around them, because a gap between two exhibitions means a closed building rather than a quiet one.
The bookshops, run by the Venetian publisher Marsilio Arte, keep the same pattern as the galleries during exhibition periods: every day except Tuesday, 10am to 6pm. The Palazzo Grassi Café and the Dogana Café open every day except Tuesday from 10.30am to 5pm, and on Sundays only the bar and coffee service runs.
Free cultural mediators are on hand in the galleries to answer questions about the exhibitions. The official hours for that service differ between two pages of the same site: the practical information page gives Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 1pm and 3pm to 5pm, while the home page gives Saturday to Wednesday for the same two windows.
What is on in 2026, and what changes in 2027
The 2026 season opened on 29 March across both venues, with four exhibitions on one ticket. At Palazzo Grassi, "Michael Armitage. The Promise of Change" brings together ten years of the painter's work, and "Amar Kanwar. Co-travellers" presents the Indian artist's installation "The Peacock's Graveyard" (2023) with a selection of other works. Both run to 10 January 2027.
At Punta della Dogana, "Paulo Nazareth. Algebra" runs from 29 March to 22 November 2026, and "Lorna Simpson. Third Person" also runs to 22 November 2026 (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 2026). Punta della Dogana therefore closes its 2026 season in late November while Palazzo Grassi stays open into January.
The Teatrino runs its own programme. "Faraway Cinema", eight films from Africa, America and Asia shown in dialogue with the four exhibitions, screens on 14, 21 and 28 October, on 4, 11, 18 and 25 November, and on 2 December 2026.
From 21 March 2027 the arrangement changes. After twenty-seven exhibitions since 2006, Palazzo Grassi becomes the home of a permanent exhibition of the Pinault Collection, a new display of more than one hundred works. Punta della Dogana keeps the temporary programme, opening "Tadao Ando & Mono-ha. The Five Elements" from 21 March to 21 November 2027.
Is the combined ticket worth both venues?
The ticket costs the same whether you use one building or two, so the question is time rather than money. The two venues are different in scale and in character, and seeing both is the point of the single ticket.
Palazzo Grassi is the palatial half. Massari's column-lined atrium greets you at ground level, the grand staircase carries frescoes by Michelangelo Morlaiter and Francesco Zanchi, and the ceiling above it a fresco by Giambattista Canal. The upper floors, where the exhibitions hang, keep the 19th-century ceilings painted by Christian Griepenkerl for Baron Simeone De Sina. Ando's intervention rearranged these rooms rather than replacing them, so the exhibitions read as a contemporary display inside an 18th-century shell.
Punta della Dogana is the industrial half, and the larger one. Its warehouse bays take monumental work that will not fit in a palazzo, and Ando set a reinforced concrete Cube in a double-height room at the centre of the plan, the same device he later used for the Rotunda at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris. Windows open onto the basin of San Marco.
Groups can add a guided tour. An express art tour of one hour costs 80 EUR plus reduced-price admission, and a 90-minute standard tour or an architectural tour of either building costs 110 EUR plus reduced-price admission, for up to 25 people (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 2026).
The buildings: Massari, Benoni and Tadao Ando
Palazzo Grassi was commissioned in the mid-1700s by the Grassi family from Giorgio Massari. Its use changed repeatedly: in the mid-20th century the Marinotti family turned it into the exhibition venue of the Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume, and in 1983 Fiat bought it for large art and archaeology shows after a restoration led by the architects Gae Aulenti and Antonio Foscari. François Pinault acquired it and commissioned a further restoration from Tadao Ando between 2005 and 2006 (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 2026).
Punta della Dogana has the longer industrial history. The Dogana da Mar was the city's maritime customs complex, designed by the architect Giuseppe Benoni, and its present configuration was completed in 1682 next to Longhena's Basilica della Salute. It was decommissioned in the 1980s and fell into disrepair until the City of Venice ran a competition to turn it into a contemporary art centre. The Pinault Collection won the contract in 2007, Ando took the commission again, and the building opened in 2009 after a little over a year of works.
The Teatrino completes the group. The site next to Palazzo Grassi had held a garden built for Baron Simeone De Sina, then an open-air theatre from the 1950s, roofed over in the 1970s. Ando rebuilt the interior without changing the perimeter or the height, and it opened in 2013 as the venue for talks, screenings and workshops.
Getting to Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana
Palazzo Grassi is at Campo San Samuele 3231 in San Marco, and the Teatrino is a few doors away at San Marco 3260. The official address page gives San Samuele and Sant'Angelo as the vaporetto stops for both. Punta della Dogana is at Dorsoduro 2, at the point where the Grand Canal meets the basin of San Marco, and its stop is Salute (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 2026).
On the ACTV network, San Samuele is served by line 2, which runs San Zaccaria to Giudecca, Tronchetto, Piazzale Roma, Ferrovia, Rialto and San Marco. Sant'Angelo and Salute are both served by line 1, the stopping service from Piazzale Roma to Ferrovia, Rialto, San Marco and the Lido. Both timetables took effect on 2 November 2026 (AVM Actv, 2026). Line 1 is the simpler choice if you want one boat for both venues, since it calls at Sant'Angelo for Palazzo Grassi and at Salute for Punta della Dogana.
All three buildings can be reached without architectural barriers from the San Samuele and Salute stops, and inside they are accessible to visitors with mobility difficulties through lifts, mobile ramps and wheelchairs on request. The ticket offices have voice amplification and a hearing loop. An Italian Sign Language guide or interpreter can be requested free of charge for tours and activities with one week's notice. Small dogs may enter if carried.
