Brera District
Via Brera, Centro Storico, Milan, 20121, Italy
Brera is Milan's most walkable and atmospheric neighbourhood — a grid of cobblestone streets north of the Duomo that houses the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Brera Academy of Fine Art, and a concentration of galleries, antique shops, design studios, and restaurants that make it the cultural heart of a city whose heart is usually measured in euros rather than aesthetics.
Chiesa di San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore
15 Corso Magenta, Centro Storico, Milan, 20123, Italy
San Maurizio is the Sistine Chapel of Milan — a 16th-century church whose interior is entirely covered in Renaissance frescoes by Bernardino Luini (Leonardo's most talented follower) and his school, creating a visual experience so overwhelming that the church has been called the most beautiful in Milan despite being virtually unknown to tourists.
Cimitero Monumentale
Piazzale Cimitero Monumentale, Porta Volta-Fiera-Gallaratese-Quarto Oggiaro, Milan, 20154, Italy
The Cimitero Monumentale is Milan's outdoor sculpture museum — an enormous cemetery where the city's industrial dynasties, opera stars, and artists commissioned tombs so elaborate that walking the avenues feels more like visiting a gallery than a graveyard.
Fondazione Prada
Largo Isarco 2, 20139 Milan
Fondazione Prada is one of the most ambitious contemporary art institutions in Europe — a 19,000-square-metre campus designed by Rem Koolhaas' OMA that combines seven existing industrial buildings (a former gin distillery from the 1910s) with three new structures clad in aluminium foam, mirror-finish gold leaf, and white concrete.
Museo del Novecento
Via Marconi 1, 20122 Milan
The Museo del Novecento is Milan's museum of 20th-century art — housed in the Arengario, a Fascist-era building on Piazza del Duomo that was converted into a museum in 2010 by architect Italo Rota.
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
2 Piazza Pio XI, Centro Storico, Milan, 20123, Italy
The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is one of the oldest public art galleries in Europe — founded in 1618 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who donated his personal collection to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana to create a study collection for the art academy he had established.
Pinacoteca di Brera
Via Brera 28, 20121 Milan
The Pinacoteca di Brera is Milan's most important art gallery — a collection of Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting that rivals the Uffizi in Florence and contains some of the most reproduced images in Italian art.
The Last Supper (Santa Maria delle Grazie)
Piazza di Santa Maria delle Grazie, 20123 Milan
Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' is the most famous painting in Milan and one of the most important works of art in the world — a 4.
Triennale di Milano
Viale Alemagna 6, 20121 Milan
The Triennale is Milan's design museum — an institution dedicated to Italian design, architecture, fashion, and the applied arts that has been the intellectual engine of the city's design industry since 1933.
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