Milan's civic museums

Map of 11 locations in Milan, Italy

Milan's municipal collections are not a single building but a network the Comune owns and staffs: eight museums inside the Castello Sforzesco, a nineteenth-century palazzo near Brera, an apartment in Porta Venezia left with its furniture, a locomotive works in Via Tortona. A single Tourist Museum Card, 20 euros for three consecutive days, covers one entry to each, and several of the castle rooms are free in the late afternoon. What follows is where each collection actually sits, what is in it, and the standing rule for getting in.

Places in this collection

  • Museo della Pietà Rondanini — The room holds the Pietà Rondanini, the last statue Michelangelo Buonarroti carved, and counts as one of the Castello Sforzesco's museums.…
  • Museo delle Arti Decorative — The civic collections of applied art, the Raccolte d'Arte Applicata, within the Castello Sforzesco, reopened to visitors after a period of…
  • Museo degli Strumenti Musicali — One of the eight museums inside the Castello Sforzesco, on the first floor, devoted to musical instruments and run by the Comune di Milano.…
  • Museo Archeologico — The archaeological section of the civic museums takes in the prehistory rooms and the Egyptian collection. Part of its holdings came from C…
  • Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco — The castle's painting gallery runs from the Gothic to the eighteenth century, with work by Filippo Lippi, Antonello da Messina, Mantegna, T…
  • Museo d'Arte Antica — On the ground floor of the Castello Sforzesco's Corte Ducale, in rooms decorated under the Visconti and the Sforza, the collection traces M…
  • Mudec | Museo delle Culture — The Museum of Cultures sits in a former Ansaldo plant in Via Tortona that once built locomotives, reworked for the purpose by David Chipper…
  • Palazzo Morando | Costume Moda Immagine — Two separate routes run through the rooms of the 18th-century Palazzo Morando Attendolo Bolognini, one for the costume, fashion and image c…
  • Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano — An apartment in a Piero Portaluppi building near Porta Venezia, holding the collection Antonio Boschi and Marieda Di Stefano built up over…
  • Museo del Novecento — The twentieth-century collection is installed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario on Piazza del Duomo, with an extension into the adjoining Palaz…
  • Palazzo Moriggia | Museo del Risorgimento — The city's Risorgimento collection occupies Palazzo Moriggia, built to Giuseppe Piermarini's 1775 design next to the Brera complex. The mus…

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