The GAM is the biggest museum dedicated to the nineteenth century in Milan. The museum takes place inside the beautiful halls of Villa Reale, a Neoclassical masterpiece designed by architect Leopold Pollack, the exhibition is made of two sections:
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This was the first public musuem of Milan, opened in 1618. Bishop Borromeo wanted it to give a free education to those who demonstrated a peculiar intelligence. He donated his entire collection to the art gallery enriched in the following centuries, making it a great addition to the illustrious Biblioteca Ambrosiana (library). Among the masterpieces […]
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No one can resist the charming call of the fortifications and towers of the Sforza Castle. Inside its walls there’s the biggest and complete collection of art and history of Milan that gives the castle its second name: the Citadel of Museums. The collection is organized in big sections:
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The museum was founded in 1776 by Maria Teresa of Austria, Napoleon opened the palace to the public and stocked it with numerous great works gathered by his armies. The original collection of Brera was then enlarged thanks to many donations and legacies. Among the most important works held inside the Brera art gallery we […]
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Milan, Palazzo Reale, from March 23 to July 10, 2016 Discover the masterpieces of the spanish painter Joan Mirò exhibited at Mudec. He developed his unique style: organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line. Generally thought of as a Surrealist because of his interest in automatism and the use of sexual […]
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Milan, Palazzo Reale, from March 23 to July 10, 2016 “Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916): genius and recollection” is the title of the exhibition dedicated to the great artist of Futurism, a hundred years after his death. Milan celebrates the undisputed protagonist of Italian Avant-garde, his ingenious approach to the dynamism of form and his research on […]
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Milan, Palazzo Reale, from February 2 to June 5, 2016 Palazzo Reale houses a new temporary exhibition dedicated to Symbolism, a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Italian, Russian and Belgian. The symbolist painters used mythological and dream imagery. The symbols used by symbolism are not the familiar emblems of mainstream iconography but intensely personal, […]
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Walking around Milan and be charmed by some shop window of a pastry shop or a delicatessen, by an inviting smell, or a sudden wish to taste something, it’s a common experience for everybody, and it’s what makes a stroll down the street so special. There are places around the city that for history, artistic […]
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The Milanese are always hurrying, wasting time is prohibited and working hard is a duty. In a city as lively and energetic as this we come across unique masterpieces, that ask us to stop for a moment and take the time to fully enjoy them. A short trip to Milan can’t do without a focus on the […]
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Experience Italy’s most dynamic, innovative and modern city in Italy. Historical centre of the economy, finance, fashion and design, Milan offers an artistic legacy that is second to none among the other capitals of art. This one-day tour let’s you admire and discover its most important monuments, catching a glimpse of hidden and distinctive corners. From its […]
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