Pinacoteca di Brera
Guide
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST · CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
≈ A$26MuseumAllow 1.5–2 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Milan's great painting gallery: Mantegna's foreshortened Dead Christ, Raphael and Caravaggio, in a palace whose courtyard holds a bronze, very naked Napoleon.
A brief history
It grew out of the art academy Napoleon's government founded here, which filled it with paintings taken from churches across northern Italy.
Tips
- Best time
- Morning, then the Brera lanes for coffee
- Cost
- ≈ €15 (check)
- Allow
- 1.5–2 h
- Free days
- Usually free on the first Sunday of the month (check)
- Hours
- Usually Tuesday to Sunday (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- Brera: Cobbled streets of galleries and bars behind the Pinacoteca.
- Access
- Step-free
- Free entry
- Usually free on the first Sunday of the month, with long queues (check)
- Indoors or out
- Indoors: good on a hot or rainy day
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