Gallery of the Academy, also known as the Museum of the Academy, is one of the largest museums of Venice, located on the banks of the Grand canal in the Dorsoduro district and holds in its bosom a huge collection of Venetian painting of the 14th-18th centuries. Actually, several galleries. They were founded in 1750, the year on the initiative of the Senate of the Venetian school of painting, sculpture and architecture. The idea of the Senate was turning Venice into the center of art education in Italy, along with Rome, Florence and Milan. In addition, it was one of the first institutions of Italy, who started at the end of the 18th century the study of the process of restoration. Originally the school was called the Academy of fine arts, and in 1807, the year became known as the Royal Academy and by order of Napoleon occupied the building, which is today.

A little later, closer to the middle of the 19th century, the gallery was turned into a Museum, and the creation of the Museum collections. Today, visitors can see works by the greatest Venetian masters of the past, Paolo and Lorenzo Veneziano, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Veronese, Tintoretto, Titian, Tiepolo, Canaletto and many others.

The name of the Accademia Gallery was named one of only four bridges in Venice, thrown across the Grand canal, the Accademia Bridge. It connects the Gallery building is a former convent and school Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carita and the urban area of San Marco. The idea of the construction of this bridge appeared in 1488, the year, but the construction itself took place only in 1854, the year. The author of the project of the bridge was Alfred Neville, who created it in the form of the original steel structure. At the beginning of the 20th century the bridge was replaced by a wooden one, because, as he thought of his contemporaries, he did not fit into the urban landscape, and in 1985, the year in its place built a new bridge, while maintaining the appearance of the original design.