Milan/Museum

6 Must-See Museums in Milan

6 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Castello Sforzesco
~2 min

Castello Sforzesco

Via Giovanni de Castro, Forze Armate-San Siro-Baggio, Milan, 20144, Italy

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The Castello Sforzesco is a massive red-brick fortress in the centre of Milan that has served as a military stronghold, a ducal palace, a barracks, and now one of the city's most important museum complexes.

Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
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Museo Bagatti Valsecchi

Via Gesù 5, 20121 Milan

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The Museo Bagatti Valsecchi is a private house museum in the Fashion District — a 19th-century palazzo created by two brothers, Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi, who spent 40 years collecting Renaissance furniture, paintings, armour, and decorative arts to furnish their home in the style of a 15th-century Lombard nobleman's residence.

Museo del Novecento
~2 min

Museo del Novecento

Via Marconi 1, 20122 Milan

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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
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Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

2 Piazza Pio XI, Centro Storico, Milan, 20123, Italy

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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
~3 min

Pinacoteca di Brera

Via Brera 28, 20121 Milan

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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.

Triennale di Milano
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Triennale di Milano

Viale Alemagna 6, 20121 Milan

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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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