Milan Museums

Visitors could find and over all they will spend hours learning lots of different things in the museums of Milan. Maybe you will make an effort to see these fantastic cultural exhibits so you can tell all the folks back home how beautiful Milan’s museums are.

The Cenacolo Vinciano is located on the Piazza of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The Last Supper fresco was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, between 1495 and 1498 on the whole wall of the refectory in the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. This work of art has undergone a restoration and only recently finished. In groups of 25, people just can appreciated of 15 minutes of this wonderful masterpiece.

Cenacolo Vinciano, Milan

The Teatro alla Scala Museum was founded in 1913, just like a opera house. Restored few years ago and reopened in 2004, it has a collection of more than 120,000 books and it is a point of reference for enthusiasts and scholars. Also it provides musical training for the new generations by organising. The museum tells the life of the opera house through a vast collection of music instruments, portraits, busts and documents dedicated to the greatest musicians, from Giuseppe Verdi to Arturo Toscanini.

The Pinacoteca di Brera is an art gallery set up in 1809 by Napoleon Bonaparte. It has a great number of artworks which seen range from the 14th to the 20th centuries and includes masterpieces by artists such as Piero della Francesca(Pala d’Urbino), Raffaello (Sposalizio della Vergine), Mantenga (Cristo Morto), il Bramante and Caravaggio. The courtyard holds a wonderful statue of Napoleon that was created by Canova.

Some frescoes in Pinacoteca di Brera: “Andrea Appiani - Apollo e Giacinto” and “Il bacio”

The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is a city’s treasure and one of the oldest museums in Milan, and a city’s treasure, it was opened in 1609 and hosts some masterpieces by artists such as Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello and Botticelli. The Ambrosiana also houses an important library which contains some ancient codes, illuminated manuscripts and ancient books.

The collection of Ambrosiana includes paintings of the Lombard and Venetian school. Raphael’s preparatory drawing for The School of Athens that hangs in the Vatican, Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit prescient in its realism, Jacopo Bassano’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Portrait of a Lady by Ambrogio de Predis, the Madonnan of the Pavilion by Botticelli, the Adoration of the Magi by Titian and a notable collection of designs by some of the great masters.

The museum is located in the former monastery San Vittore of the 16th century. It collection illustrates the history of science and technology down to modern times. 40,000 square meters of exhibition space for subjects ranging from astronomy to computers and also a massive 15,000 pieces in its collection.

Of particular interest are the Leonardo da Vinci Gallery who designed all while he lived in Milan; the department of physics, with apparatus used by Galileo, Newton and Volta and the departments of optics, acoustics, telegraphy, transport, shipping, railroads, flying, metallurgy, motor vehicles, clocks and watches, and timber. There is also a library and reading room including film presentations.

Inside the "Leonardo da Vinci" National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan - Models of Leonardo’s inventions.

The invasion of Napoleon to Milan was to the Sforza Castle heavily damaged, the Napoleon’s troops used the frescoes halls as sleeping rooms and the interior courtyards as stables. Nowadays the impressive halls of the Sforza Castle are used as art museums:

• Museum of Ancient Art, with the last masterpiece of Michelangelo and the unfinished marble statue “Pieta Rondanini” on the ground floor of the Ducal Courtyard.
• Museum of Antique furniture and art collections, with a portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza on the first floor of the Ducal Courtyard
• Collections of Applied Art and a museum of historical musical instruments are in Rocchetta halls.
• The “Torre Castellana” houses on the ground floor the treasury "Sala del Tesoro" with frescoes by Bramantino.
• The Prehistoric and the Egyptian Museums are on the underground level of the Rocchetta and Sala Viscontea.

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