{"id":6415,"date":"2017-06-14T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T07:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/uncategorized\/fondazione-querini-stampalia\/"},"modified":"2018-07-09T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T10:39:51","slug":"fondazione-querini-stampalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/en\/fondazione-querini-stampalia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Querini Stampalia Foundation: much more than a library"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Venetian people the\u00a0Querini Stampalia Foundation\u00a0is much more than a library<\/h2>\n

Located in the historical city centre, this cultural place has been welcoming many generations of high school and university students, being a gathering point with a long history and an open cosmopolitan soul that the Venetians hold dear.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Querini Stampalia Foundation\u00a0<\/strong>was born in 1869 because of the will of count\u00a0Giovanni Querini Stampalia<\/strong>, the last descendant of the Venetian noble family. In his will, Giovanni imagines a place open to dialogue, knowledge and a gathering point between different cultures, a space dedicated to personal growth and to the diffusion of a kind of knowledge based on personal education and growth.<\/p>\n

What Venice is inheriting is a unique institution which has been able to preserve the whole cultural heritage of the Venetian family, a structure where old staircases underwent contemporary architectural restorations by\u00a0Carlo Scarpa, Valeriano Pastor<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Mario Botta<\/strong>, which offers a stimulating and functional frame to individual study and cultural activities.<\/p>\n

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Scarpa himself probably reached his career peak at the Querini Stampalia Foundation. The entrance, for example, is\u00a0a unique case of co-existence between water and concrete materials<\/strong>: the Venetian architect gives importance and dignity to this element and makes it integrated part of the space by creating paths and hallways in order to make the water get into the building.<\/p>\n

nside the Foundation we find the\u00a0Library<\/strong>, which is open until late at night and during non-working days as the founder wanted it to be, and the\u00a0Museum<\/strong>, where we breath that \u00a0XVIII century atmosphere thanks to the art works of the Quern Stampalia family, an original nucleus of collections (manuscripts, incurables, printed editions, old geographic maps and engravings) which originated during\u00a0the noble family\u2019s seven-century-long history<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Admission is free on the ground floor and to the library, the wi-fi, the bar, the\u00a0wonderful garden<\/strong>\u00a0by Carlo Scarpa, the bookshop equipped with refined products, but an especially cultural, welcoming and dynamic atmosphere make the Foundation the destination of generations of students, scholars and artists that feel at home here.<\/p>\n

All photos by Marco Valmarana, @marcovalmarana, for Venezia da Vivere<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fondazione Querini Stampalia<\/h3>\n

Campo Santa Maria Formosa 5252
\nPhone. +39 041 2711411
\nfondazione@querinistampalia.org<\/a>
\nwww.querinistampalia.org<\/a>
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