Castelvecchio Museum hosts Titian exhibition from 31 October

Castelvecchio Museum (Museo di Castelvecchio) in Verona will host Titian’s Venus and the Musical Renaissance from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027. The exhibition brings Titian’s Venus with a Dog and an Organist from Madrid’s Prado Museum into a programme marking the centenary of the Verona museum.

Titian’s Venus exhibition opens at Castelvecchio on 31 October

The exhibition opens on 31 October 2026 in Sala Boggian and continues until 31 January 2027. The date, venue and programme are listed by Visit Verona’s exhibition listing, the official destination website for the city.

Titian’s Venus with a Dog and an Organist is the central work. It is shown alongside Jacopo Tintoretto’s The Contest of the Muses and The Pierides, as well as Marietta Robusti’s Self-Portrait with a Spinet from the Uffizi Galleries. The organisers also include cornets, Renaissance flutes, madrigal books and musical manuscripts from the Accademia Filarmonica di Verona.

The exhibition is accompanied by a programme developed with the E. F. Dall’Abaco Conservatory in Verona. A concert in Sala Boggian is scheduled for 21 November 2026, while the wider programme also includes guided visits on selected dates. The exhibition links the paintings to Renaissance ideas about music, love, knowledge and beauty rather than treating the instruments as separate museum objects.

Verona museum marks 1926 opening with Renaissance music

The exhibition is part of the centenary programme for the museum, which opened in 1926. Its central loan therefore connects a current display with the institution’s first century, while its subject reaches further back to sixteenth-century Venetian and Veronese culture.

Reporting on the centenary records that the museum was substantially transformed by Carlo Scarpa’s restoration in 1964. The building’s history and the exhibition’s anniversary setting are documented by the centenary report. The museum’s Scarpa-designed display history gives the loan a setting shaped by both medieval collections and modern museography.

The exhibition itself is presented as an international collaboration involving the City of Verona, the Civic Museums Directorate, the Prado Museum and the Verona Philharmonic Academy. A further account describes the project as bringing together paintings, sculptures, instruments, music books and original scores from several Italian institutions, including the Uffizi Galleries and libraries in Verona.

Paintings and instruments share Sala Boggian

The choice of Sala Boggian matters because the venue allows the exhibition to place painted instruments beside historical examples. This creates a direct connection between Titian’s image and the material culture of Renaissance music, while the concert programme extends that connection into live performance.

The central painting, dated to about 1550, measures 148 by 217 centimetres. It comes from the Prado collection and provides the starting point for a display that combines art history, music history and the history of collecting. The exhibition’s curatorial team is Francesca Rossi, Luca Fabbri and Michele Magnabosco, as recorded in the exhibition overview.

Visiting Castelvecchio Museum: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• The exhibition runs from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 at Sala Boggian, Castelvecchio Museum, Corso Castelvecchio 2, Verona.
• The programme includes works by Titian, Tintoretto and Marietta Robusti, plus Renaissance instruments, books, manuscripts and a concert on 21 November 2026.
• The venue is in Verona’s historic centre at Corso Castelvecchio 2, and the museum’s official contact details identify it as part of the Civic Museums of Verona.

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Frequently asked questions about Castelvecchio Museum

When does Titian’s Venus and the Musical Renaissance take place at Castelvecchio Museum?

The exhibition takes place from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 in Sala Boggian.

What is Castelvecchio Museum?

It is a Verona museum opened in 1926 and substantially transformed by Carlo Scarpa’s restoration in 1964.

Where is Castelvecchio Museum and how do you get there?

The museum is at Corso Castelvecchio 2 in Verona and forms part of the city’s Civic Museums.