Gallerie dell'Accademia

The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It houses the Leonardo da Vinci drawing The Vitruvian Man, which can only be exposed for a few weeks every six years for conservation reasons. It is housed in a building complex comprising the former Scuola Grande, church, and convent of Santa Maria della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro.