Venice National Archaeological Museum

Venice National Archaeological Museum

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia
Façade of the museum on Piazza San Marco
Established	c. 1523 (collection by Cardinal Domenico Grimani)
Location	Piazza San Marco 52, 30124 Venice, Italy
Coordinates	45.4336°N 12.3393°E / 45.4336; 12.3393
Type	Archaeology museum
Director	Michela Sediari
Website	Official website

The National Archaeological Museum of Venice (Italian: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia) is an archaeological museum located in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. It houses one of the most important collections of Greek and Roman antiquities in northern Italy.

The origins of the museum trace back to the collection of Cardinal Domenico Grimani (1461–1523), whose private antiquities formed the nucleus of what would later become the museum's holdings. Some of these artifacts date as far back as the 1st century BC.

The museum's collections include:

• Greek and Roman sculptures
• Ceramics, vases, and ivories
• Coins, gems, and jewelry
• Portrait busts of Roman emperors
• Ancient inscriptions and stone artifacts
• Objects of Assyro-Babylonian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Egyptian origin from the Neolithic period
• The Armenian-Venetian collection
• Legal texts from the 17th century
• Bilingual dictionaries

Additionally, several archaeological items from the Correr Museum are also housed here.