Museums in Milan

The Pinacoteca di Brera is one of Italy's greatest art collections, housed in a magnificent 17th-century palazzo in Milan's bohemian Brera quarter. It holds masterworks spanning six centuries of Italian painting.

The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is a jewel-box house museum near La Scala, showcasing the exquisite private collection of 19th-century Milanese nobleman Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli in his former residence.

Italy's largest science and technology museum occupies a vast former Olivetan monastery, housing everything from Leonardo da Vinci's machine models to a full-size submarine and steam locomotives.

The Museo del Novecento occupies the Arengario palace directly overlooking Piazza del Duomo, displaying Italy's finest collection of 20th-century art. Its spiral ramp architecture offers stunning views of the cathedral through floor-to-ceiling windows.

The Triennale Milano is Italy's foremost institution for design, architecture, and decorative arts, housed in the Palazzo dell'Arte at the edge of Parco Sempione.

MUDEC (Museo delle Culture) is Milan's museum of world cultures and contemporary art, housed in a dramatic conversion of a 19th-century Ansaldo industrial complex in the Tortona creative district.

The Museo Bagatti Valsecchi is a remarkable house museum where two 19th-century aristocratic brothers reconstructed their palazzo to replicate a Renaissance nobleman's residence, filling it with genuine 15th- and 16th-century furnishings.