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Museums in Milan
Milan is rich in art and culture and includes many noteworthy museums and galleries in its list of attractions. The Castello Sforzesco houses a diverse range of art and antiquities as well as a splendid archaeological collection and display of old coins and banknotes. It is also home to Michelangelo ’s famous 'Pietà Rondanini'. The State Archaeological Museum contains relics from the Roman era. The collection includes everyday items from jewellery to kitchen utensils and exquisite glassware. The museum also contains exhibits from Ghandara, India. The museum’s architecture is also testimony to its Roman heritage. Art lovers will enjoy the Bagatti Valsecchi, which houses a collection of art from the Italian Renaissance collected by baron Bagatti Valsecchi. The Renaissance collection also includes a splendid collection of Decorative Arts from majolica to ivory coffers. Other notable museums in the city include the Museo Teatrale alla Scala, the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali and the Museo di Storia Contemporanea.
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Milan Museum
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Address: Santa Maria delle Grazie
Phone: +39 02 88464180
e-mail: info@milan-museum.com
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Price: 15 - 18 EUR
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Website: http://www.museodimilano.mi.it
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The refectory of this domenican convent, by the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is a home to Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last Supper'. Painted between 1494 and 1498, under Ludovico il Moro, Leonardo abandoned the traditional way of fresco painting and depicted the scene 'a secco' (painting on dry plaster) on the wall of the refectory. However, upon completion, this technique, including environmental factors, contributed to the deterioration of the fresco, which had to undergo numerous restorations ever since. The most recent one took place in 1999, where a number of scientific methods were employed to regain the initial colours and removed the traces of paint dating from previous attempts to restore the fresco. Serious measures have been implemented to protect the fresco from further exposure, and the piece is kept at room temperature. That's why visits have been restricted to groups of 25, admitted every 15 minutes.
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Museo Diocesano
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Address: Corso di Porta Ticinese 95
Phone: +39 02 8940 4714
e-mail: info@museodiocesano.it
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Price: 4 - 6 EUR
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Website: http://www.museodiocesano.it
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The Museo Diocesano, housed at the Parco delle Basiliche, features a collection of grass-fringed paths, volleyball courts playgrounds created after World War II on the site of the city's ancient execution grounds. This site brings together principal works and treasures from small church museums in Milan and Lombardy, and the Church of Sant'Ambrogio, as well as works of religious significance donated from private collections.
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Poldi-Pezzoli Museum
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Address: Via Manzoni 12
Phone: +39 02 794 889
e-mail: info@museopoldipezzoli.it
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Price: 4 - 6 EUR
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Website: http://www.museopoldipezzoli.it
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In 1850, art collector Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli started the decoration of his own apartment in the family palace, which resulted in a series of rooms set in various artistic and decorative styles of the Baroque, Medieval, Early Renaissance and Rococo period, designed and decorated by some of the era’s most innovative artists.
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Bagatti-Valsecchi Palace
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Address: Via Gesù, 5
Phone: +39 02 7600 6132
e-mail: info@museobagattivalsecchi.org
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Website: http://www.museobagattivalsecchi.org
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The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, a non-profit museum set in a historic house in the Montenapoleone district of Milan. It features the Italian Renaissance Art and Decorative Arts collections of barons Bagatti Valsecchi. The vast exhibits can be viewed in the barons’ home, at the same time showcasing the authentic ambiances and the evocative aristocratic Milanese taste of late 19th Century.
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Natural History Museum
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Address: Corso Venezia 55
Phone: +39 02 781 312
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Opening Hours: Monday-Sunday 09 -18
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Milan's Natural History Museum was opened in 1838 following a large donation constituting pieces by the Giuseppe de Cristoforis and Giorgio Jan collections. This huge building was from 1893 and currently holds a long line of exhibits and collections of reconstructions of dinosaurs, a variety of skeletons, insects, reptiles, mammals, scientific instruments, and a specialist library featuring over 30,000 books. Among the highlights there is a vast fossil collection of the Besano glacier, dating back some 200 million years. There are also few detailed recreations of animal habitats.
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Museum of Maritime Art
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Address: Via Sant'Andrea 6
Phone: +39 02 884 65933
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Website: http://www.museodistoriacontemporanea.it
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Located in the 18th-century Palazzo Morando Attendolo Bolognini, Milan's City Museum of Contemporary History houses several museums featuring vast amounts of Milan memorabilia, including historic documents and paintings depicturing the city. This site also includes a conference room where meetings, debates and events tackling contemporary history are often held.
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Museum of Cinema
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Address: Via Manin 2
Phone: +39 02 655 4977
e-mail: info@cinetecamilano.it
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Website: http://www.cinetecamilano.it
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Milan's Palazzo Dugnani was erected some 300 years ago and used to be a property of the Milan city council since 1846. The structure is located in northeast Milan and features an array of constituents, including the staircase, the gallery for musicians, and frescoes by the famous Giambattista Tiepolo. The structure hosts the Museo del Cinema, a site documenting the evolution of motion picture cameras produced as early as the 18th Century and also contains a wide variety of historical apparatus, film memorabilia and posters from the beginnings of the 20th Century.
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Theatre Museum
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Address: Piazza della Scala
Phone: +39 02 805 3418
e-mail: biglietteria@teatroallascala.org
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Website: http://www.teatroallascala.org/it/museoscala
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The Theatre Museum belongs to the Teatro alla Scala opera house in central Milan. The structure was completed in 1913 and now houses a plethora of objects related with the La Scala, as well as items of general theatrical interest. Among the exhibits you will see sculptures, paintings and ceramics, as well as many original scores of music.
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