Pinacoteca di Brera - The most famous art gallery in Milan

The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the most important art collection in Milan and one of the most interesting in Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.

Inaugurated in 1810, the Pinacoteca di Brera houses paintings of artists like: Bramante, Caravaggio, Francesco Hayez, Andrea Mantegna, Modigliani, Piero della Francesca, Raffaello, Rembrandt, Pieter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, Tiziano, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and many others..

Pinacoteca di Brera
Via Brera, 28 Milan
Tel: (+39) 02722631

Fax: (+39) 0272001140

E-mail: brera.artimi@arti.beniculturali.it

Website: http://www.brera.beniculturali.it

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday 8:30am - 7:30pm (ticket office opens from 8:30am until 6:45pm).

Closed: Mondays, 1 January, 1 May, 25 December.

Admissions: full € 5,00 - reduced € 2,50.

Disabled visitors: the gallery is accessible by lift from the Soprintendenza entrance. Electric wheelchairs available.

Getting here by public tranport: underground line 2, Lanza stop; underground line 3, Montenapoleone stop; tram 1-4-8-12-14-27; bus 61-97.

GAM - The Modern Art Gallery in Milan

Created with donations made by rich milanese collectors, the Modern Art Gallery, together with the Brera museum, the Triennale and the Permanente, is one of the most rapresentative places for art in Milan.

Visiting the GAM you can have an interesting overview of the evolution of italian modern art, watching paintings of artists like Pellizza Da Volpedo, Severini, De Chirico, Morandi, Carrà, Sironi, Fontana, Manzoni and many others.

Ah, I was forgetting... the entrance is absolutely free!

GAM - Gallery of Modern Art
Via Palestro, 16 (underground line 1, Palestro stop) - Milan - Italy

Opening: from Tuesday to Sunday, 9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Tel. +39 02 76002819