MUSEUMS
Poldi Pezzoli
Via Manzoni, 12
Metro: line 3 Montenapoleone stop or line 1 S. Babila stop
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday 10 18
Info: 02 79.63.34 - website
A private museum created in the 19th century that houses a fine collection of paintings including Mantegna, Bellini, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca and Pollaiuolo. In addition, there are collections of decorative arts, such as jewellery, clocks and watches, sundials, ceramics, glass and furniture. English leaflet available. Free audio-guide equipment in English, Italian and Japanese
Bagatti Valsecchi
Via Gesù, 5
Metro: line 3, Montenapoleone stop
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, 13 -17.45.
Info: 02 76.00.61.32, - website
The Bagatti Valsecchi brothers spent much of their lives in the late 19th century collecting antiques from all over the country, and commissioned all sorts of period-style furnishings from skilled Lombard craftsmen in order to recreate an authentic Renaissance atmosphere in their own home. The result, beautifully preserved and well-presented, has a cinquecento feel, along with the unmistakably 19th-century characteristics of dark, elaborate decoration. Exhibits include furniture, glass, ceramics, ancient weapons, many fine (original!) paintings, leather ware and more.
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Piazza Pio XI, 2 (Metro: line 1, Cordusio stop).
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00 -17.30.
Info: 02.806.921 -
The masterpieces on show include the "Portrait of a Musician" by Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio's "Basket of Fruit" and Raphael's preparatory cartoon for the "School of Athens" fresco. Lombard 15th and 16th century paintings, Renaissance Veneto works, Flemish paintings and more.
Pinacoteca di Brera
Via Brera, 28
Metro: line 2, Lanza stop, line 3, Montenapoleone stop
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, 8.30 -19.15
Info: tel. 02.722.631 -
One of the finest galleries for Medieval and Renaissance Italian which houses works by Raphael, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Rubens and Francesco Hayez among the others.
Castello Sforzesco
Piazza Castello
Metro: line 1, Cairoli stop
Open: from Tuesday Sunday, 9.30-17.30
Info: tel. 02 88.46.37.04 - website
This museum is installed in a series of Renaissance halls that were once part of Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza's palace, and so it includes frescoed ceilings and his private chapel, as well as collections of sculpture (including Michelangelo's last work, the Pietà Rondanini), and paintings. The "Sala delle Asse" has a superb ceiling decoration designed by Leonardo da Vinci and painted by his assistants. There are sections dedicated to furniture, musical instruments, ceramics, paintings and sculpture.
Monumental Cemetery
Piazzale Cimitero Monumentale
Tram: lines 3, 4, 11, 12
Open: from Tuesday to Friday, 8.30 -17.15 and from Saturday to Sunday 8.30-17.45. Admission free.
Milan's most prestigious cemetery is built over an area of 250,000 square metres. The structure that dominates the entrance recalls the Gothic cathedral of Siena, but in fact it dates to 1860 and reflects the eclectic architectural style of the time. Inside, the cemetery is not so interesting for the people buried there, but rather for the tombs, which are a sort of an open-air gallery of late 19th and 20th-century sculpture.
Museo d'Arte e Scienza
Via Quintino Sella, 4
Metro: line 1, Cairoli, line 2, Lanza stop
Open: from Monday to Friday, 10 18, Saturday, 10 14.
Info: tel. 02 72.02.24.88 - website
A private museum (previously the Museo del Collezionista d'Arte) that reveals the differences between real and fake antiques, whether pictures, pottery, furniture, tapestries or silverware. You can handle objects, feel their patina, and discover how to use magnifying glasses and other instruments to verify the originality of a piece. A special section is dedicated to "understanding art by Leonardo da Vinci".
Museo della Scienza "Leonardo da Vinci"
Via S. Vittore, 21
Metro: line 2, S. Ambrogio
Open: from Tuesday to Friday 9.30 -16.50, Saturday and Sunday 9.30 -18.30.
Info: Tel. 02 48.55.54.4 - website
Machinery, transport, industry, and Leonardo's inventions illustrated by means of a series of models (on the first floor).
This is a huge collection that spreads throughout the spaces of an ex-monastery, with cars, aircraft, ships, scooters, trains, reconstructions of ancient workshops for metalworking, clock making, guitar-making, right through to electricity, electronics, textiles, astronomy.
Via Manzoni, 12
Metro: line 3 Montenapoleone stop or line 1 S. Babila stop
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday 10 18
Info: 02 79.63.34 - website
A private museum created in the 19th century that houses a fine collection of paintings including Mantegna, Bellini, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca and Pollaiuolo. In addition, there are collections of decorative arts, such as jewellery, clocks and watches, sundials, ceramics, glass and furniture. English leaflet available. Free audio-guide equipment in English, Italian and Japanese
Bagatti Valsecchi
Via Gesù, 5
Metro: line 3, Montenapoleone stop
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, 13 -17.45.
Info: 02 76.00.61.32, - website
The Bagatti Valsecchi brothers spent much of their lives in the late 19th century collecting antiques from all over the country, and commissioned all sorts of period-style furnishings from skilled Lombard craftsmen in order to recreate an authentic Renaissance atmosphere in their own home. The result, beautifully preserved and well-presented, has a cinquecento feel, along with the unmistakably 19th-century characteristics of dark, elaborate decoration. Exhibits include furniture, glass, ceramics, ancient weapons, many fine (original!) paintings, leather ware and more.
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Piazza Pio XI, 2 (Metro: line 1, Cordusio stop).
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00 -17.30.
Info: 02.806.921 -
The masterpieces on show include the "Portrait of a Musician" by Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio's "Basket of Fruit" and Raphael's preparatory cartoon for the "School of Athens" fresco. Lombard 15th and 16th century paintings, Renaissance Veneto works, Flemish paintings and more.
Pinacoteca di Brera
Via Brera, 28
Metro: line 2, Lanza stop, line 3, Montenapoleone stop
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, 8.30 -19.15
Info: tel. 02.722.631 -
One of the finest galleries for Medieval and Renaissance Italian which houses works by Raphael, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Rubens and Francesco Hayez among the others.
Castello Sforzesco
Piazza Castello
Metro: line 1, Cairoli stop
Open: from Tuesday Sunday, 9.30-17.30
Info: tel. 02 88.46.37.04 - website
This museum is installed in a series of Renaissance halls that were once part of Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza's palace, and so it includes frescoed ceilings and his private chapel, as well as collections of sculpture (including Michelangelo's last work, the Pietà Rondanini), and paintings. The "Sala delle Asse" has a superb ceiling decoration designed by Leonardo da Vinci and painted by his assistants. There are sections dedicated to furniture, musical instruments, ceramics, paintings and sculpture.
Monumental Cemetery
Piazzale Cimitero Monumentale
Tram: lines 3, 4, 11, 12
Open: from Tuesday to Friday, 8.30 -17.15 and from Saturday to Sunday 8.30-17.45. Admission free.
Milan's most prestigious cemetery is built over an area of 250,000 square metres. The structure that dominates the entrance recalls the Gothic cathedral of Siena, but in fact it dates to 1860 and reflects the eclectic architectural style of the time. Inside, the cemetery is not so interesting for the people buried there, but rather for the tombs, which are a sort of an open-air gallery of late 19th and 20th-century sculpture.
Museo d'Arte e Scienza
Via Quintino Sella, 4
Metro: line 1, Cairoli, line 2, Lanza stop
Open: from Monday to Friday, 10 18, Saturday, 10 14.
Info: tel. 02 72.02.24.88 - website
A private museum (previously the Museo del Collezionista d'Arte) that reveals the differences between real and fake antiques, whether pictures, pottery, furniture, tapestries or silverware. You can handle objects, feel their patina, and discover how to use magnifying glasses and other instruments to verify the originality of a piece. A special section is dedicated to "understanding art by Leonardo da Vinci".
Museo della Scienza "Leonardo da Vinci"
Via S. Vittore, 21
Metro: line 2, S. Ambrogio
Open: from Tuesday to Friday 9.30 -16.50, Saturday and Sunday 9.30 -18.30.
Info: Tel. 02 48.55.54.4 - website
Machinery, transport, industry, and Leonardo's inventions illustrated by means of a series of models (on the first floor).
This is a huge collection that spreads throughout the spaces of an ex-monastery, with cars, aircraft, ships, scooters, trains, reconstructions of ancient workshops for metalworking, clock making, guitar-making, right through to electricity, electronics, textiles, astronomy.