Myvenice.org was born with the exact aim, represented by a group of scholars and entrepreneurs which joined into the Venice Foundation 2000, to build a community of virtual citizens of Venice. In the first number of the newsletter of the year 2004, they explicitly wrote about the will to start a route towards the achievement of “a kind of honorary citizenship”: Venice can and must “adopt” its visitors and at the same time “be adopted” by them. The web community, after its first year of life, is actively involving people which during time have been in touch with Venice and that are attentive and interested to its evolution and choices. The editorial staff of myvenice, in order to deepen this sense of belonging, has thought to make intervene directly the participants to the web community, the virtual Venetian citizens, suggesting them to express their opinion about issues that are under discussion in the real Venice. The first of these issues regards the story and therefore destiny of Palazzo Grassi, an important private cultural institution, known all over the world and visited by more than seven million people since 1986 up to today, that will now see a change in its destiny, even if it is still not known what its destiny will be. There is a fiery debate on newspapers and political headquarters, especially now that the FIAT group dropped out, putting up on sale the real estate and the institution.

>>The questionnaire, available on the website <<, organized in a way that it stresses immediately the answers’trend, represents a real opportunity of expression for all those people who are related to Venice, and it can represent a useful hint both for the City Council administration (which is a majority partner of the estate) and the new major, Massimo Cacciari.