Overview

The Pinacoteca is the main museum of Milan, and one of the most important of the world for its prestigious collections of ancient and modern painting. Collections come from the concentration in this building of painting required to churches and convents during Napoleon government. As in Venice and Bologna, this art gallery had specific didactic purposes under Fine Arts Gallery direction.

Tour details

RESERVATIONS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED UNTIL THE FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER; CONFIRMATIONS WILL BE SENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Reservations must be made with a minimum of 1 day notice.

Before making your reservation, please, read the Ordering Informations

IMPORTANT NOTICE: After succesfully completing a reservation, you will receive two e- mails: the copy of your order (immediately after submitting your order) and the confirmation mail (one working day after). In order to receive them, please make sure you insert your e-mail address correctly and check that your anti-spam filter or antivirus are not blocking mails from our address reservations@waf.it. Special attention for AOL mailbox users.

PLEASE NOTICE: Confirmed time is not always the same time you requested; museum automatically confirms the closest available time on the same date if requested time is sold out.

Cancellation Policy: For cancellations once a confirmation code has been assigned to the reservation, up to 8 days before the date of the visit, we can refund cost of unused tickets minus service fee (reservation fee and online booking fee). For further cancellations and no shows, no refund is possible.

Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 8.30 a.m to 7.15 p.m (last admission 6.30 p.m). The museum is closed on Monday, 1st January, 1st May and 25th December.

Exhibition for the celebration of  Bicentennial of Brera:
Caravaggio ospita Caravaggio ( January 17th -  March 29th 2009)
Raffaello, Lo sposalizio della Vergine. Presentazione del restauro (March 2009 19th)
Brera com'era: Paesaggi di Lombardia. 1817-1822, la Sala dei Paesaggi ( April 7th - June 2nd 2009)
Il restauro del gesso della statua di Napoleone (May 5th 2009)
Brera com'era: Il "Gabinetto dei ritratti dei pittori" di Giuseppe Bossi (June 11th - September 20th 2009)
Festa per Brera (August 15th 2009)
I Crivelli che arrivarono a Brera (October 15th 2009 - February 15th 2010)
Brera e la guerra. L'archivio Fotografico della Soprintendenza: documenti sul primo e sul secondo conflitto mondiale a Milano (11th November 2009 - January 10th 2010)
Convegno sui musei napoleonici (December 2nd and 3rd 2009) 

Prices

Tickets:

Full price

Reduced price:
European Union citizens and from the Switzerland Federation aged 18 to 25
European Union and Switzerland Federation teachers with permanent contact

Free tickets:
European Union and Switzerland Federation citizens under 18 and over 65
Groups of Italian and European schools accompanied by their teachers, with an advance booking at time established by the museum.
Tourist guides from the European Union during their job
Tourist interpreters accompanying a guide
Staff of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Members of ICOM
Teachers and students from the European Union, belonging to the following institutes: architecture, cultural heritage preservation, sciences of instruction or courses in Letters or Literature subjects with archaeological, historical or artistic addresses of Institute of Letters and Philosophy.
Teachers and students from the Fine Arts Academies of the European Union
Students from the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, and the Scuola per il Restauro del Mosaico
Journalists of the National register
Handicapped citizens from the European Union accompanied by a member of his family or a social-sanitary assistant
Workers of Voluntary Associations addressed to promotion and diffusion of cultural heritage knowledge (based on conventions made with the Ministry art 12, comma 8 of the code)
Members of the Associazione Amici di Brera