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Recommended museums in Milan
In Milan, as you have read on other pages of the site, and as you probably know, there is a lot to do. Among other things, if you are a lover of culture and art, you can find over a hundred museums there! The recommended museums in Milan are so many, yet we tried to make a little order and bring you the most important and recommended museums in the city. If you are landing in Milan for a few days, of course you will find what you are looking for here. Now all you have to do is choose:
- Castello Sforzesco
- Museo Mudec
- Pinacoteca di Brera
- The last supper
- The design museum Triennale
- Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
- Poldi Pezzoli
- Palazzo Reale
- Museo del Novecento
- Holocaust Museum – Memoriale della Shoah
- Museo Teatrale alla Scala
- Museo del Risorgimento
- Museo Della Scienza E Della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
- The Museum of Modern Art – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporane
Sforzesco Castle
In Piazza Castello you can admire one of the most famous examples of Renaissance architecture, the Sforzesco Castle, a wonderful building built by Francesco Sforza in the 15th century. In addition to the fact that the citadel is one of the historical symbols of Milan, it is actually a cluster of a very large number of historically and artistically important museums, including the Egyptian Museum, Pinacoteca, the Museum of Musical Instruments and the Museum of Ancient Art. One part of the museum preserves what is considered to be Michelangelo’s last work, which dates back to the second half of the sixteenth century.
Museum address: Piazza Castello – 20121 Milano
Museum website: Sforzesco Castle Museum
Modak Museum – Museo Mudec
Modak Museum is dedicated to the study of cultures from all over the world and you can find a variety of changing exhibitions of visual art, sound performances, design and costumes.
The museum is located in the Navili district, in the Tortona design neighborhood and opened in 2015.
Museum address: Via Tortona, 56, 20144 Milano
Museum website: Modak Museum
Pinacoteca di Brera
One of the most important museums in Milan is without a doubt the famous pinacuta in the Berra area which is located inside the Berra building. There is no doubt that the museum’s much publicity is due to its impressive collection of many works of art from different times, from the fourteenth century to the twentieth century. Among the countless works in the museum you will find the Supper at Emmaus, a work created by Caravaggio, Bacio attributed to Francesco Hayes and much more.
Museum address: Via Brera, 28 – 20121 Milano
Museum website: Pinkotka di Berra
The Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci
One of the most famous works in the world by the one and only, Leonardo da Vinci, which has become one of the cornerstones in the study of painting techniques, stands inside the building of an ancient church, and is actually painted on one of the crumbling walls of the church. This, then, is not a real museum in the conventional sense of the word, and the visitors who come to this church view only the one piece of “The Last Supper”. Coming to Milan and seeing the Last Supper is almost a cliché, and yet, highly recommended. It is definitely worth investing the effort of ordering the tickets in advance on the website, since it is almost impossible to enter this museum-church without a reservation several months in advance.
Museum address: Piazza di Santa Maria delle Grazie – 20123 Milano
Museum website: The Last Supper
Triennale Design Museum – Triennale Milano
The Triennale Museum is known as the popular modern design museum in Milan, with spectacular permanent and changing exhibitions. We recommend that you stay up-to-date on the museum’s website about the exhibitions on display during your visit to Milan. Visitors to the museum are advised to continue walking in the nearby Sempione Park.
Museum address: Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, Milano
Museum website: Triennale Design Museum
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
This cultural institution was founded in 1618 in order to ensure a free cultural education for anyone who exhibits artistic and intellectual attitudes. The gallery is the oldest museum in Milan. Many important works of famous artists such as Titian, Botticelli and Raphael are kept inside it.
Museum address: Piazza Pio XI, 2 – 20123 Milano
Museum website: Pinkotka Ambrosia Museum
Poldi Fetzoli Museum
The recommended museums in Milan – Poldi Fetzoli Museum
מוזיאון חשוב מאוד במילאנו אשר מכיל אוסף יצירות אמנות
Donated by Milanese collector Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli. The museum has masterpieces by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Giovanni Bellini, Francesco Hayes and many other names in the history of Italian and world art. The Poldi Pezzoli Museum is actually one of the most important Italian art collections in Italy and in the whole world.
Museum address: Via Alessandro Manzoni, 12 – 20121 Milano
Museum website: Poldi Fetzoli Museum
The Royal Palace – Palazzo Reale
The recommended museums in Milan – The Royal Palace
In the city center in Piazza del Duomo, in addition to the magnificent cathedral, you can also find the Royal Palace. Since 1919, the palace has become a venue for exhibitions that have gained increasing prestige both nationally and internationally. The exhibitions change but the high level is always maintained. Among other things, over the years, exhibitions devoted to, for example, Monet, Luan Gogh and more have been presented here.
Museum address: Piazza del Duomo, 12 – 20122 Milano
Museum website: Palazzo Reale
Nineteenth Century Museum – Museo del Novecento
Also in the vicinity of the Royal Palace, the museum housed in a magnificent building with a permanent collection of works of art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among other things, you can find there works by Kandinsky, Picasso, Buccini and much more.
Museum address: Palazzo dell’Arengario, Via Guglielmo Marconi, 1 – 20122 Milano
Museum website: Nineteenth Century Museum
The Holocaust Memorial Museum – Memoriale della Shoah
The relatively new museum opened its doors for the first time in January 2013, the museum, which is located in an underground street just below the big central station in Milan, on platform No. 21 which was the platform from which, while hiding from the eyes of passers-by, the Jewish trains to the concentration camps of Flossenburg, Ravensbrück, Bergen were sent – Belsen, Mauthausen and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The museum is built in a modern style and hosts many groups of students and residents of the city, and there are no explanations in Hebrew (a lot of Italian and a little English). Nevertheless, the place is chilling due to its special way of display and the terrible past that took place there.
Museum address: Piazza Edmond J. Safra, 1 – 20124 Milano
Museum website: The Holocaust Memorial Museum
La Scala Theater Museum – Museo Teatrale alla Scala
Adjacent to the opera house “La Scala” stands this private and fascinating museum. The museum preserves one of the richest collections of stage costumes, including rare sketches and autographed works. In addition, many other items related to the world of opera and music, such as portraits, letters, and ancient musical instruments. Even if you’re not an opera fan and don’t want to buy a ticket to one of the theater shows, visiting the museum is an experience in itself.
Museum address: Largo Antonio Ghiringhelli, 1 – 20121 Milano.
Museum website: La Scala Theater Museum
Museum of the Unification of Italy – Museo del Risorgimento
The museum dealing with the unification of Italy was established as early as 1886 as an exhibition space entirely dedicated to this unification, which is so important in Italian history. The museum is located in the Maurija Palace, which was the home of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Napoleonic era. Objects, weapons, prints, works of art, and many other historical relics from the years 1796-1870, that is, from the time when Napoleon conquered Rome, are stored here.
Museum address: Via Borgonuovo, 23 – 20121 Milano
Museum website: Museum of the Unification of Italy
Leonardo da Vinci Museum
This is the Science Museum of Milan. The museum is housed in a beautiful and impressive building in itself. In addition to the permanent and changing exhibitions, some of which are also interesting for children, the museum has unique activities and workshops for children.
Museum address: Via San Vittore, 21, 20123 Milano MI
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday 09:30-17:00, Saturday-Sunday and holidays 09:30-18:30. Closed on non-holiday Mondays.
Museum website: Leonardo da Vinci Museum
The Museum of Modern Art of Milan – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporane
Right near the city’s public gardens, on the other side of Via Palestro, is the Gallery of Modern Art in Milan (Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporane), housed in a magnificent palace, which was converted in 1921 into a museum.
The palace of luxury, spectacular in its beauty, where the gallery, called GAM for short, operates, is a royal and rich villa of historical significance, as it was used as Napoleon Bonaparte’s home in the city, after he conquered northern Italy. The beauty and wealth of the place has been preserved since then and it is a suitable hostel for the masterpieces displayed there. This is undoubtedly the city’s well-known modern art museum, which focuses on art that was considered modern in the 19th century and continues into the 20th century.
There are no contemporary and post-modern works in the GAM gallery. In the large and magnificent halls of this gallery you can meet hundreds of works and works of the best of Impressionist, Expressionist and Modernist artists, such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Modliani, Max Ernst, Andy Warhol and other Italian and French artists, from the modernist movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
On the top floor of the building you can also see neoclassical sculptures by Italian artists from the 20th century, such as Canova, Marini and others.
This gallery is a paradise for art lovers who broke the tradition of realism in the 19th century and grew stronger in the 20th century. This is a place where the splendor of the past is combined with the art of the recent past, by artists from Italy and the world.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 to 17:30 (last entry 30 minutes before closing).
Palestro Street 16 (via Palestro), you can reach the Palestro station with the red metro line.
Museum website: the Museum of Modern Art of Milan
