Oriental Art Museum
Ca’ Pesaro houses the Museo d’arte orientale di Venezia, a major European collection of Edo-period Japanese art (1603–1868). The museum’s presence here is the result of a long private collecting story: Prince Enrico di Borbone, count of Bardi, traveled with his wife Adelgonda of Braganza and spent about nine months in Japan, purchasing more than 30,000 works between the late 1880s. When he died in 1905, the collection passed to the Viennese firm Trau, which began selling it until World War I led to the seizure of Austrian assets. After the war, the property was recognized to the Italian state as part of war-reparation settlement, and in 1925 State and Comune of Venice agreed to relocate the collection to Ca’ Pesaro. …
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