A friendly curator will lead you around the wonderfully ornate former home of author and poet Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873), second in Italian literature only to Dante....

Husband and wife Antonio Boschi and Marieda di Stefano took their modern art collection seriously: they once sold their car to buy more paintings, and even hid part of their...

The buildings of the archeological museum are as interesting as the collections within. The initial courtyard was once the entrance to the Monastero Maggiore; and a detailed...

Giovanni Ceruti's neo-classical building was put up in 1838 to house the collections left to the city by aristocrat Giuseppe de Cristoforis. It's a great rainy day museum: the...

Housed in a vast metallic warehouse, the Fondazione Pomodoro provides a welcome contrast to Milan's dim and often cavernous church-based sightseeing. As he approached his 80th...

Housed in a former bank archive, this massive venue holds international contemporary art exhibitions, including a strong selection of video installations. The majority of...

An essential place of pilgrimage for any football fanatic, small but chock-full of AC Milan and FC Inter paraphernalia. Highlights include 1928 Inter cufflinks, documentation...

This late 19th-century neo-Renaissance palazzo - residence of the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers, Fausto and Giuseppe - opened as a museum in 1994, a tribute to the extraordinary...

A unique, mature and fascinating museum, primarily exposing fraudulent works of art - and the scientific techniques involved. With detailed explanations in English, the...

A collection of religious artworks from the Cappuccini order of monks. Talks on iconography, religious art and other subjects take place weekly.

Reached through a little gate at the side of the late 17th-century Palazzo Dugnani, Milan's cinema museum may be small, but Hitchcock and Capra were reportedly among its fans....

It's little wonder that Napoleon chose to live here in 1802, followed by the Austrian field marshal Count Joseph Radetzky. This recently restored neo-classical villa, formerly...

Fully renovated in 2002, the 18th-century Palazzo Morando Attendolo Bolognini is at once a living museum exhibiting the Countess Bolognini's collection of porcelain, sculptures...

The Museo Diocesano houses a large collection of religious art treasures taken from churches and private acquisitions throughout Lombardy. The museum, which opened in 2001,...