VIC (Venice Cultural Initiatives) is a company that was set up in 1999 by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti to promote, organise and administer cultural activities at Palazzo Franchetti and Palazzo Loredan (the Istituto’s premises for more than a century). VIC also looks after the maintenance and operation of all the plant at Palazzo Franchetti, Palazzo Loredan and the exhibition space at the Zattere. The recent restoration work to the two buildings and the installation of sophisticated technological equipment now allow VIC to hold conferences, exhibitions and other cultural events in them. The easy accessibility, the nobility of the architecture, the extent and arrangement of the spaces and the efficient technical systems have created a venue for conferences and exhibitions in the heart of Venice that in a few years has become one of the most active and prestigious centres of cultural life in the city and the whole country.
