Museums

The Refectory of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie hosts one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian art: Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. It was commissioned to Leonardo by Ludovico Sforza, known as Il Moro, who was then Duke of Milano.

The Brera Art Gallery collection includes some of the greatest masterpieces of Italian art. The palace was erected over the remains of a 14th-century monastery of the Humiliati order which was subsequently given to the Jesuits. Later on, the building became state property and Empress Maria Theresa of Austria decided to house here several of the city’s cultural institutes (The Academy of Art, the Library, the Botanical Garden, etc). The great architect Giuseppe Piermarini was chosen to work on the project.

The museum and picture gallery boasts the Codex Atlanticus: it is the largest collection of writings and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. It also houses one of the most original artistic collections in the city, from the Middle Ages to the mid-sixteenth century.

The museum and picture gallery boasts the Codex Atlanticus: it is the largest collection of writings and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. It also houses one of the most original artistic collections in the city, from the Middle Ages to the mid-sixteenth century.

The Museum of Michelangelo's Pietà Rondanini, housed inside the ancient Spanish Hospital at the Castello Sforzesco, is entirely dedicated to Michelangelo's last masterpiece.

Unique of its kind in Italy, the Museum of Italian Design at the Milano Triennale showcases a series of some of the most iconic and representative pieces of Italian post-war design, from a collection of 1,600 objects. A dynamic museum, offering new and diversified perspectives on the contemporary.

Housed in an early sixteenth-century Olivetan monastery near the St. Ambrose Basilica, the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology is the largest science and technology museum in Italy and houses an unrivalled wealth of examples from the country’s industrial tradition.

MUDEC – Museum of Cultures is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to the various testimonies and cultures of the world. Starting from its ethnographic collections and opening up to different communities, it presents itself as a place of dialogue on the themes of the contemporary, through design and visual, performing and sound arts.

The Duomo Museum was born from the idea of valorizing all the materials, whether used or discarded, that were used for the design as well as for the building of the Cathedral. Countless objects that arouse the visitor’s interest: statues, tapestries, embossing, terracotta sketches, graphic material, paintings and wooden models. These are precious testimonies that document the history of Mioano’s most important building, a reference point for both religious and lay life in Milan.

The Civic Planetarium "Ulrico Hoepli" is a cultural institute for the dissemination and teaching of astronomy and the related sciences. It is the largest in Italy and was inaugurated in 1930 thanks to the donation of Ulrico Hoepli, founder of the publishing house of the same name.