The house of Carlo Goldoni is a museum in Venice, part of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. It is housed in Palazzo Centani, in San Polo 2793.
The palace, one of Carlo Goldoni's residences in Venice, was purchased by a citizens' committee in 1914, and donated to the city in 1931. From 1953 it housed the "Casa Goldoni" Institute of Theater Studies, which was rearranged and restored as museum in recent years. A first phase of the works, which ended in the 1990s, involved the adaptation of the headquarters from a structural point of view and safety measures, including a new stairwell and a lift for the disabled. The second phase, from 1999, involved the expansion and rearrangement of the exhibition spaces, including a rationalization of the library on the second floor of the building.
The palace is organized around a courtyard with a well curb decorated with lion heads and an open 15th century staircase. The actual museum is located on the first floor, spread over three rooms. The life and work of Carlo Goldoni and the context of the theater and of Venetian society in the 18th century are represented here through relics, furnishings, paintings, illustrations of Goldonian comedies and explanatory panels. A room dedicated to puppets stands out in its layout, in which the theater of Palazzo Grimani ai Servi is reconstructed, including about thirty original eighteenth-century marionettes.