Museums in Milan
Milan City Sightseeing Tour including il Cenacolo - Da Vinci's " Last Supper"
Make a panoramic city tour of Milan to see it's major sights such as The Duomo and Sforzesco Castle. This is your opportunity to see Da Vinci's "Last Supper", and enjoy an espresso in the same cafe that composer Verdi frequented.
Duration: 4 hours
Price: Starting from EUR €50.00 per person
The Ambrosian Art Gallery
Opened in 1618 it is the oldest museum in Milan. It contains important works as Raffaello’s cartoon for “School of Athens” fresco; Caravaggio’s “Basket of fruit”; Botticelli’s “Madonna con Bambino e tre angeli ”.
Piazza Pio XI, 2- tel. 02 806921
website:www.ambrosiana.it (Italian text)
The Sforza's Castle art gallery
This museum is divided into many parts: collections of art antiquities; applied arts; musical instruments. There are also archeological and numismatic collections from ancient Egypt, and a inscribed and tablets section. Here you can see the famouse Pietà Rondanini by Michelangelo
Piazza Castello, tel. 0039 02 88463703
Brera Art Gallery
One of the greatest galleries containing several masterpieces of Italian art from the XIV to the XX century such as: Raphael’s “Marriage of the Virgin”; Giovanni Bellini’s “Pietà”; Piero della Francesca’s “Urbino Altarpiece”; Andrea Mantegna’s “The Dead Christ”; Caravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus”; and Bramante’s “Christ at the Column”. There are six new halls dedicated to Italian paintings between XIII and XVI century; there is a collection of metaphysical paintings, and there is also the Maria and Emilio Jesi collection, which has been donated to the gallery.
Via Brera, 28- tel. 0039 02 722631
website: www.brera.beniculturali.it (Italian text)
The “Leonardo da Vinci” Science and Technology museum
This museum is dedicated to the great genius of Renaissance and is divided into three parts:
1) Monumental building including: Measurement of length and mass, Modern
physics, Optics, Electrology, the Leonardo gallery, Astronomy, Clock-making,
Land transport, Graphic arts Tele-and-Radio-communications, Metallurgy,
Smelting and Petroleum research. In this part there is also the Physics
Research Centre and the Conference hall.
2) Rail Transport building including a collection of 21 locomotives
and carriages from various periods.
3) Air and Sea Transport building including three very famous works: the naval training ship
“Ebe”, the bridge of the “Conte Biancamano”,
and the submarine "Enrico Toti" of the Italian Militar Marine.
Via San Vittore, 21- tel. 02 48555455
The Naval Museum
It contains navigation instruments and some models of ships, relif models and some relics. The masterpiece is the “Red Tent” used by General Nobile in his expedition to the North Pole.
Via San Vittore, 21- tel. 02 48555455
The Modern Art Gallery
This gallery contains: a collection of XIX century paintings of Milanese
Neoclassicism, Italian Romanticism, Macchiaioli school, Italian Impressionism,
Verism and Divisionism.
There are also two galleries: the Grassi collection (paintings between
XIX and XX century), and the Giuseppe Vismara collection (XIX-XX century
works).
Via Palestr, 16- tel. 02 76002819
The Cathedral Museum
It contains various pieces related to the construction of the Cathedral
such as designs, sculptures, ornaments and decorations, stained-glass
windows.
With the Entry Ticket to the Museum is possible to climb the Dome.
Piazza Duomo, 14- tel. 02 860358
La Scala Theatre Museum
Palazzo Busca
Corso Magenta,71- tel. 02 4691249
website: http://www.teatroallascala.org/public/LaScala/EN/index.html
The Municipal Archaeological Museum
It was born as the fusion of the Brera Archaeological Museum and the Municipal Artistic Museum. It contains Greek, Italiot and Etruscan bronzes and pottery. One section is dedicated to the Roman Period in Milan. Another section is dedicated to recent excavations, and their relics, made in Palestine. There is also a very interesting ancient coins collection.
Corso Magenta, 15- tel. 02 86450011
The Municipal Natural History Museum
Located in the Public Gardens, it is the oldest municipal museum in Milan. There is a great number of insects, mineral, birds and fossils that contribute to create great geology, palaeontology, petrography and mineralogy sections.
Corso Venezia, 55- tel. 02 88463280
The Cinema Museum and Italian Motion-picture Film Library
Here it is illustrated the period before motion pictures invention, and origins and development of the cinema.
Palazzo Dugnani
Via Manin, 2/B-tel. 026554977
The Botanical Gardens
This museum was established by Maria Teresia of Austria in 1777, and it contains ancient trees such as a pair of Gingko Bilboa, an enormous Junglans, a Lime, a green plane-tree Firmiana and a great Pterocarya Fraxinifolia.
Via Brera, 28. Visits by appointment
Inter and Milan A.C. Museum
The first sport-museum in Italy inside a stadium; it contains more than 3000 objects concerning the history of the two great Milanese football teams: Milan A.C. and Inter F.C.
Stadio G. Meazza-San Siro
Via Piccolomini, 5-tel o2 4042432-4042251
Art Collector Museum
It is the most important European centre for checking of authenticity of antiques for art collectors.
Goffredo Matthaes Foundation
Via Q. Sella, 4-tel. 02 72022488
ARCHAEOLOGY
Municipal Collections of Archaeology and Numismatics - Egyptian and Prehistorical Section
Milano - Castello Sforzesco, p.zza Castello
Phone 0039 02 8053972
www.milanocastello.it
ARCHEOLOGY
Museum of Archeology
Milano - c.so Magenta, 15
Phone 02/86450011-8053972
ART
Diocesan Museum
Milano - Chiostri di Sant'Eustorgio, c.so di Porta Ticinese, 95
Phone:02/89404728-89404714 www.museodiocesano.it
ART
F. Messina Museum and Study
Milano - via S. Sisto, 4
Phone 02/86453005
ART
L. Minguzzi Museum
Milano - via Palermo, 11
Phone 02/8051460-8690180
ART
Leonardo's Last Supper
Milano - p.zza Santa Maria delle Grazie, 2
Phone 02/89421146
www.cenacolovinciano.it
ART
Municipal Art Collections: Gallery of Modern Art
Milano - Villa Reale, via Palestro, 16
Phone 02/76002819
ART
Municipal Collections of Antique Art
Milano - Castello Sforzesco, p.zza Castello
Phone 02/6208394-86463054
ART
Municipal Collections of Applied Art and Prints - Museum of Musical Instruments
Milano - Castello Sforzesco
Phone 02/860160
ART
CIMAC (Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art)
Milano - Palazzo Reale, p.zza Duomo, 12
Phone 02/62083219
ART
Museum of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Passione
Milano - via Conservatorio, 16
Phone 02/76021370
ART
Museum of the Permanente
Milano - via Turati, 34
Phone 02/6551445-6599803
ART
PAC (Padiglione arte contemporanea)
Milano - via Palestro 14
Phone 02/76009085
ART
P. Pini Art Museum
Milano - ex Ospedale psichiatrico "P. Pini", via Ippocrate,
45
Phone 02/66212325
ART
The Ambrosian Gallery
Milano - p.zza Pio XI, 2
Phone 02/806921
www.ambrosiana.it
ART
The Bagatti Valsecchi Foundation Museum
Milano - via Santo Spirito, 10
Phone 02/76006132
www.museobagattivalsecchi.org
ART
The Brera Gallery
Milano - via Brera, 28
Phone 02/722631
www.brera.beniculturali.it
ART
The Cathedral Treasury
Milano - Duomo, p.zza Duomo
Phone 02/86463456 (Vestry)
ART
The Contemporary Religious Art Gallery
Milano - V. Terruggia, 14
Phone 02/6470066 (Office)
ART
The Milan Cathedral Museum
Milano - Palazzo Reale, p.zza Duomo, 14
Phone 02/860358
www.internetlandia.com/duomo
ART
The Museum of Milan
Milano - Palazzo Morando, via Sant'Andrea, 6
Phone 02/76006245
www.museidelcentro.mi.it
ART
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum
Milano - via Manzoni, 12
Phone 02/794889
www.museopoldipezzoli.it
ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Museum of the Basilica of St. Ambrose
Milano - p.zza Sant'Ambrogio, 15 - via Lanzone, 30/a (accesso ai disabili)
Phone 02/86450895
ANTHROPOLOGY
Museum of Peoples and Cultures
Milano - via Mosè Bianchi, 94
Phone 02/438201
NATURAL HISTORY
Municipal Museum of Natural History
Milano - c.so Venezia, 55
Phone 02/88463280 (Museum) 88463289-93 (Booking)
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
E. Treccani Museum
Milano - via Carlo Porta, 5
Phone 02/6572627
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
Educational Maritime Museum
Milano - via S. Vittore, 21
Phone 02/4815551
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
G. Lorenzi Collection
Milano - via Montenapoleone, 18
Phone 02/76022848
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
La Scala Theatre Museum
Milano - Palazzo Busca, C.so Magenta, 71
Phone 02/8053418
www.teatroallascala.org
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
Museum of the Pusterla di Sant'Ambrogio
Milano - via Carducci, 41
Phone 02/8053505
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
The Art Collector Museum
Milano - via Q. Sella, 4
Phone 02/72022488
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
The Italian Design Permanent Collection ('45 - '90)
Milano - via Durando, 38
Phone 02/724341 (Triennial)
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
The Movies Museum
Milano - Palazzo Dugnani, via Manin, 2/b
Phone 02/6554977
www.cinetecamilano.it
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
The Perfume Museum
Milano - l.go Vulci, 3
Phone 02/3495161
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
The Toy and Child Museum
Milano - via Pitteri, 56
Phone 02/26411585 (Museum)
www.museodelgiocattolo.com
SPECIALIZED MUSEUM
The Zucchi Collection and Museum
Milano - via Ugo Foscolo, 4
Phone 02/902551 (Telephone exchange) 90255230 (Museum)
HISTORY
Museum of Contemporary History
Milano - via Sant'Andrea, 6
Phone 02/88464170 (Museum of the Risorgimento)
HISTORY
Museum of the Risorgimento
Milano - Palazzo de Marchi, via Borgonuovo, 23
Phone 02/88464170
www.museidelcentro.mi.it
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology
Milano - via S. Vittore, 21
Phone 02/485551
www.museidelcentro.mi.it
