The Lichenotheca Veneta is a collection of lichen exiccata published in 1869 and preserved in its original form at the Museum of Natural History “Giancarlo Ligabue” of Venice. The collection, which contains 268 specimens belonging to 188 species, 123 genera, 45 families, 22 orders and 7 classes, was recently digitized and published online in the form of a web portal. The dataset, which contains a record for each specimen along with one or more digital images of each specimen, is available through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Keywords: Digitization, exiccatum, historical collections, lichens.