The Palazzo Pesaro Papafava building that is hosting the Giacomo Casanova Museum and Experience.
The Giacomo Casanova Museum and Experience has opened today in Venice, Italy, in hopes of educating visitors about the 18th-century adventurer and bon vivant, addressing more than just his womanizing reputation. The museum does, however, makes reference to Casanova’s infamous behavior–the six-room museum includes a bedroom where a shadow installation makes it seem as if Casanova is seducing a woman right in front of visitors.
But curators want to focus on other aspects of the Venetian scholar and writer whose memoir, “History of My Life,” provides one of the best chronicles of European high society of the late 18th century. “We want this character, this person, to be known in his entirety,” said museum director Andrea Cosentino. “Here we give the basis of what he was, not only as a lover but also as a man, philosopher and scholar.”
Additionally, visitors can learn about his travels across Europe, his arrests and escapes, his relationship with the lagoon city, his personality, and scholarly accomplishments.
