Vicenza's Natural History and Archaeological Museum sits near Santa Corona and fills a useful gap between the city's Palladian palaces. Its collections move from fossils and regional landscapes to Roman and pre-Roman finds, grounding Vicenza in the longer story of the Veneto.
It is a quieter museum than the headline art collections, but that can be a virtue. Visit when you want context for the land around the city, or when repeated church and palace interiors start to blur into one another.