Museums

Museums in Milan

Art, science, history and specialist collections worth a half-day each.

  1. 1.Studio Museo Francesco Messina

  2. Pinacoteca di Brera

    2.Pinacoteca di Brera

    The Pinacoteca di Brera is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.

  3. Museo del Novecento

    3.Museo del Novecento

    The Museo del Novecento is a museum of twentieth-century art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city.

  4. Museum of the Cenacolo of leonardo da vinci

    4.Museum of the Cenacolo of leonardo da vinci

    The Last Supper is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. The painting represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles, as it is told in the Gospel of John – specifically the moment after Jesus announces that one of his apostles will betray him. Its handling of space, mastery of perspective, treatment of motion and complex display of human emotion has made it one of the Western world's most recognizable paintings and among Leonardo's most celebrated works. Some commentators consider it pivotal in inaugurating the transition into what is now termed the High Renaissance.

  5. 5.Theater museum La Scala

  6. 6.Museo Diocesano di Milano

  7. 7.Museo Astronomico di Brera

  8. 8.Musei Civici di Monza

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