Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, Gothic palace in San Marco district, Venice, Italy.

Palazzo Pesaro Orfei is a Venetian Gothic palace in the San Marco sestiere, with three facades facing Campo San Beneto, Calle Pesaro and the Rio di Ca' Michiel. The campo facade has two tall central seven-light windows with pointed arches; the rio side has three large multi-light windows and a wide water portal. Two reception halls on the noble floors each run 45 metres, lit through a large inner courtyard, and the balconies carry carved lions and cherub friezes.

The palace was built in the 15th century by Benedetto Pesaro of the Pesaro family. After the San Beneto branch died out in the late 17th century, it was rented out from about 1720 to tenants including the Albrizzi printing house and two musical associations, the Accademia degli Orfei from 1786 and the Società Apollinea from 1835. Mariano Fortuny bought it in the early 20th century, made it his residence in 1902 and set up a textile workshop with Henriette Negrin in 1907. Donated to Venice in 1956, it became the Museo Fortuny in 1975.

The palazzo served as the workspace of Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny, who established textile design studios here in the late 1800s. His creative process combined traditional Venetian craftsmanship with innovative production techniques that he developed within these rooms.

The museum occupies the palace's piano nobile and second floor: paintings, fabrics and Fortuny lamps on the first, rooms on the palace and its workshop on the second. The entrance is on Campo San Beneto, and the large inner courtyard with its openings can be crossed on foot. Allow time for temporary exhibitions, which often fill the ground floor.

Inside, original printing machines and weaving equipment from Fortuny's workshop remain on display, showing how hand-printed fabrics were created. These devices offer visitors a rare look at the practical side of artistic textile production from the early 1900s.