Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia (English: Natural History Museum of Venice) is a museum of natural history housed in Fondaco dei Turchi, located on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy.
Its collections relate mainly to the natural history of the Venetian lagoon that surrounds the city.
The museum is located in the Fondaco dei Turchi, originally built in the 13th century as a palazzo for the Pesaro family.
[1] It is built in the Venetian Byzantine style, being originally used as a trading depot for goods from the East.
The Natural History Museum in Venice was founded in 1923 to hold and display a number of scientific collections from the Museo Correr and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, among others.