To promote this extraordinary heritage, numerous museums dedicated to the Great War have come together in local networks to connect large and smaller institutions. The result is a series of integrated proposals that combine museum visits, the exploration of sites along the front line and history trails to offer a consistent, complete and engaging interpretation of events.

These networks turn Veneto into an open-air museum in which every valley, every town and every monument helps to reconstruct the mosaic of history. A joint commitment that transforms the memory of the War into an opportunity for knowledge-sharing, reflection and understanding.

Must-visit museums:

• Museo della Terza Armata in Padua
• Museo del Risorgimento in Padua
• MUB – Museo della Bonifica in San Donà di Piave
• Museo Hemingway e della Grande Guerra in Bassano
• Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza of Vicenza
• Museo della Battaglia di Vittorio Veneto
• Museo della Grande Guerra Tre Sassi in Cortina d’Ampezzo
• Museo Marmolada Grande Guerra

In Rovigo, spring is a season of art and literature. At Palazzo Roverella, until 28 June, Zandomeneghi and Degas. Impressionism between Florence and Paris showcases the dialogue between two of the greatest painters of the late nineteenth century: a look at the modernism that was born in Florence and found full expression in Impressionist Paris.

A short distance away, at Palazzo Roncale, until 29 June the exhibition Gian Antonio Cibotto (1925–2017). A taste for storytelling. pays tribute to a great writer, journalist and critic closely connected with Polesine. Two different exhibitions united by a common thread: the ability to transform reality into enduring stories.

If you are already feeling nostalgic about the Olympics and Paralympic Games, there is good news! Until 2 June the spirit of winter sports lives on at the Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri in Verona with the Winter Games exhibition! Winter sports. Photographs from the LIFE archives 1936–1972. Through the snaps of the historic magazine, you will experience the energy of the competitions, the charm of the mountains and the evolution of winter sports between the 1930s and 1970s, in an exhibition that combines sport, photography and twentieth-century history.

Until 19 July, the Altinate San Gaetano Culture Centre of Padua will be hosting the most comprehensive retrospective on M. C. Escher. The exhibition brings together woodcuts, lithographs and preparatory studies, revealing the impossible architectures and geometric metamorphoses that made Escher a master of visual perception. Combining mathematical rigour with poetic invention, the exhibition will enthral visitors of all ages who enter this unique universe.

Not long left to the opening of the 61st Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition. Enchantment, fertility, sharing and generative practices directed at the community will be among the themes of In Minor Keys, the exhibition conceived by Koyo Kouoh, who passed away in May 2025.

Ahead of the opening on 9 May, Venice is ready to welcome you with a series of exhibitions showcasing different perspectives on art and history. At Stanze della Fotografia, the retrospective Horst P. Horst. The Geometry of Grace explores the elegance and formal perfection of one of the great masters of twentieth century photography. At Palazzo Ducale, the exhibition Etruscans and Venetians. Waters, Cults and Shrines examines the dialogue between two civilisations through artefacts, symbols and sacred sites. At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, meanwhile, Peggy Guggenheim in London. Birth of a Collector traces the years in which the renowned patron began to build her extraordinary art collection.

The galleries of the Museo Civico di Palazzo Chiericati of Vicenza will be hosting the exhibition Realist Painting in the Veneto from Favretto to Beltrame, featuring portraits and landscapes created between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Until 14 June you can admire Giacomo Favretto and Angelo Beltrame's depictions of everyday life, faces, gestures and scenes in a transforming Venetian society. The result is a visual narrative that weaves local tradition with a focus on the modern, lifting the lid on a chapter of the region’s artistic history that is often undervalued.

Also in Vicenza, until 26 July the Basilica Palladiana will be hosting the exhibition Guido Harari. Meetings. 50 Years of Photographs and Stories. The display retraces half a century of the photographer’s career through more than 300 images, installations and films that document his encounters with musicians, artists, intellectuals and leading figures of contemporary culture.

Until 1 December 2026, the Museo Luigi Bailo in Treviso will be celebrating the work of one of the most sensitive interpreters of Treviso’s 20th century artistic scene. Nino Springolo and ‘I due compagni’ is an exhibition that focuses on friendship, intimacy and the painter’s ability to portray human bonds with delicacy and profoundness. An opportunity to rediscover an artist who combines emotion and artistic technique in an intense dialogue with the visitor.