Photology
Via della Moscova 25 • MM2 Moscova, MM3 Turati.
Open Tues-Sat 11.00-19.00, Sun and Mon closed. Admission free. Info: tel. 02.6595.285,

• Until 17 January. Giacomelli for Africa. A photographic exhibition and a book for Africa.

Galleria Milano
Via Daniele Manin 13 • MM3 Turati.
Admission free.

• Until 17 January. Sandro Somarè. Solo exhibition. Canvases, drawings, tempera paintings, watercolours, miniature theatres, and more.

FMG Space
Via Bergognone 27 • tram 14
Open Tues-Sat 15.00-20.00. Closed Sun and Mon. Admission free.

• Until 18 January. London calling. Four emerging British architecture studios present their latest designs building in London’s outskirts.

Fabbrica Eos
Piazza Baiamonti, 6 · MM2 Moscova
Open Tues–Sat 10.00-13.00, 16.00-19.00. Entrance free.

• Until 18 January. Ruggero Rosfer and Shaokun. An Italian photographer and a Chinese painter, building a bridge between photography and art, Italy and China, East and West.

Spirale Arte Contemporanea
Corso Venezia, 29 • MM1 San Babila
Admission free. Open Tues-Sat 11.00-19.30

• Until 18 January. Hidetoshi Nagasawa. Solo show by the Japanese artist, presenting a marble Butterfly Tree, designed and created specially for this space. Plus 15 paper works.

Palazzo dei Giureconsulti
Via Mercanti 2 • MM1/3 Duomo.
Open every day 10.00-19.00.

• Until 21 January. Sudan, Straight to the Heart. 50 photos by Marcello Bonfanti, depicting humanitarian work by Emergency in Sudan.

Fondazione Luciana Matalon
Foro Buonaparte 67 • MM1 Cairoli.
Open Tues-Sat 10-19. Admission free.

• From 7 until 31 January. The wind alphabets. A selection of sculptures and paintings by Luciana Matalon.

PrometeoGallery di Ida Pisani
Via Ventura 3 • MM2 Lambrate.
Open Tues-Sat 11–13/ 15-19. Admission free.

• Until 28 January. Facts and Politics. A solo show by Greek artist Vangelis Vlahos. 22 panels with photos and articles. Images illustrating Greek interests in Eastern Europe and the Balkans today. A second show features 42 photos from the archive of Greek newspaper Eleftheros Cosmos (Free world), the official press organ for the regime of the colonels.

Arte Due Gallery
Via Boltraffio, 12 • MM3 Zara
Open Mon-Fri 15-19

• Until 25 June 2009. Street Art only. Organized by the Italian Writers’ Association, illustrating the professional possibilities of spray art, by means of a series of exhibitions featuring artists with worthwhile style and skill. The first show named “Returnable Empties” presents 30 artists, with different techniques, background, underground reputation, and modes of expression.

Galleria Grazia Neri
Via Maroncelli 14 ● MM2 Garibaldi tram 3, 4, 7
Open Mon-Fri 9.00–13.00/14.30–18.00; Sat 10.00-12.30/15.00–17.00. Admission free. Tel. 02 625271

• Until 16 January . James Whitlow Delano, photographer, returns to some of the countries that he has visited. Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mongolia, India, Tibet and many other nations.

Galleria Poleschi
Foro Buonaparte 68• MM1 Cairoli, MM2 Lanza
Open Tues-Sat 10.00-13.30, 15.30-19.30; Mon 16.00-20.00. Entrance free.

· Until 21 February. “Mondino and Friends”. Art works by Aldo Mondino and his assistants Roberto Coda Zabetta, Federico Guida and Davide Nido.

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
Via San Vittore 21• MM2 Sant’Ambrogio buses 50,58,94
Open Tues-Fri 9.30-17.00, Sat and Sun 9.30-18.30. Entrance €3.00-8.00

• Until 22 February. ARNOhammacher. Solo show by the Dutch photographer and designer. Under the auspices of the Koninkrijk der Nerderlanden.

Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala
Via Monte di Pietà 1 · MM1 Cairoli, MM3 Montenapoleone; bus 61; trams 1, 2, 20
Open Tues-Sat 10.00-19.00, closed Sun and Mon. Admission free.

• From 29 January Until 21 March. Bärbel Schulte Kellinghaus. Solo show by the sculptor from Berlin. The show includes sculptures made in oak, ceramic, terra cotta and porcelain.

Galleria Ca' di Fra'
Via Carlo Farini, 2 · buses 41, 70; trams 3, 4, 7, 11

• Until 31 January. The Polaroid. A group show showing different artistic styles, but all using the Polaroid photographic medium.

Galleria Artra
Via Burlamacchi 1 • MM3 Porta Romana
Open: Tue- Sat 15-19. Admission Free

• Until 30 January: Oliver Ressler. “For A Completely Different Climate”, a project on global warming, designed for Milan. A solo show by this Viennese artist.

Galleria Galica
Viale Bligny 41 • MM3 Porta Romana, tram 29-30
Open Tues-Fri 10.00-13, 15.00-19.00, Sat 14.00-19.00

• Until 7 February: Geometrical reflections. The show presents work by four artists from different European countries: Francesco Candeloro, Marco Di Giovanni, Philip Hausmeier and Vincent Lamouroux, in a show curated by Walter Guadagnini. The artists share an interest in sculptural forms and the relation of space with everyday life. They explore the mechanisms of sight and the rules of geometry, moving into areas of abstraction.

Instituto Cervantes
(Sala mostre), Via Dante 12 • MM1 Cairoli.
Open Mon-Fri 16.00-20.00, Sat and Sun closed. Admission free.

• Until 16 January. Más Aún. Y.Aún Más, sculpture by Yolanda Herranz.

Allegra Ravizza Art Project
Via Gorani, 8 • MM1 Cairoli
Open Tues-Sat 11.30-19.00. Entrance free.

• Until 24 January. Solo show by Claudio Massini. 10 paintings.

Nina Lumer
Via Botta, 8 • MM3 Porta Romana
Open Tues-Fri 15.00-19.30. Entrance free.

• Until 30 January. Allutsinatsiya (Hallucination) by Yerbossyn Meldibekov and Nurbossyn Oris from Kazakhstan. Contemporary post-Soviet Russian art.

Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Procaccini 4, on corner with Via Luigi Nono 7 ● trams 29/30
Open Mon-Fri 15.00-18.00, Sat & Sun 10.00-18.00. Info: tel. 02.4548.7400

• Until 15 January. The Epson FAR Prize for contemporary art. Work by 23 young artists from all over the world: drawings, photos, installations, performance and video.

Studio D’Arte Cannaviello
Via Stoppani 15 · trolleybus 92; tram 23; bus 60

• Until 7 January: Selected works by Jasper de Beiger. The 21 works by the Dutch artist are inspired by historical ages and events, made using scale models in various kinds of paper, or live models. The resulting images are digitally processed to create a narrative universe entirely independent from the original historical context.

Galleria Raffaella Cortese
Via Stradella,7 • MM1 Porta Venezia
Open Tues-Sat 15-19.30 or by appointment

• Until 20 January. Versus Inversus. A collection of works by five female artists living and working in different times and places: Ana Mendieta (Cuba, 1948), video and drawings; Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, 1942), video, performance, photography; Martha Rosler, (Brooklyn, NY, 1943) artist, essayist; Zoe Leonard (Liberty, NY, 1961), images; and Joan Jonas (New York, 1936), performer, videomaker.

Castello Sforzesco
Civic Collection of Applied Arts
Sale Panoramiche
Piazza Cairoli • MM1 Cairoli.
Open Tues-Sun 9.00-13.00, 14.00–17.30, Mon closed. Admission free.

• Until 15 January: Examples of Ottoman art. From the Castello Sforzesco collection.

• Until 11 January: Bernardo Bellotto. A glimpse of 2015. Translating past times into the contemporary language.

Spazio Guicciardini
Via Guicciardini, 6 • trams 9, 29, 30, buses 54, 61
Open Mon-Fri 9.30-12.30/14.30-18.30. Admission free.

• Until 16 January. Work by students at the Art Therapy Training Course run at the VITT3 Art Therapy Clinic of Milan.

Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta
Foro Bonaparte 50 • MM1 Cairoli, MM3 Lanza
Open every day 10.00-19.30, Mon closed. Entrance €6.00/8.00

· Until 22 February. Ethnopassion. Peggy Guggenheim’s ethnic art collection. And “Other cultures in Milan”, four collections normally housed at Castello Sforzesco.

Hangar Bicocca
Viale Sarca, 336 • tram 11
Open Tues-Sun 10.00-19.00, Tues and Thurs open until 22.00, Mon closed. Entrance €2.50/4 (ticket includes the show at Spazio Oberdan)

• Until 25 January: “It is difficult” by Alfredo Jaar. This anthological show presents works by the Chilean architect and film-maker, who lived during the Pinochet dictatorship.

Galleria Carla Sozzani

Corso Como 10 • MM2 Moscova
Open Tues, Fri, Sat, Sun 10.30-19.30, Wed and Thurs 10.30-21.00, Mon 15.30-19.30.

• Until 8 February: Lisette Model and her followers: Diane Arbus, Bruce Cratsley, Elaine Ellman, Larry Fink, Peter Hujar, Raymond Jacobs, Ruth Kaplan, Leon Levinstein, Eva Rubinstein, Gary Schneider, Rosalind Solomon and Bruce Weber. “Private portraits” is a succinct description of Lisette Model’s approach. With a keen sense of observation and a personal, ironic style, Lisette Model portrayed France and America during the second half of the 20^th century: public beaches on Coney Island, jazz clubs, the prosperity and abandon of Fifth Avenue, or simple gatherings on the streets.

Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro
Via Solari 35 • MM2 S. Ambrogio, bus 68, tram 14
Open Wed-Sun 11.00-18.00 (entrance possible until 17.00). Thurs 11.00-22.00 (entrance possible until 21.00). Tickets: €7/4

• Until 22 March: Arnaldo Pomodoro. Works by Arnaldo Pomodoro, featuring 15 sculptures, some never previously seen. In addition, over 100 images by photographer Ugo Mulas.

Fondazione Stelline

Corso Magenta 61 • MM1 Cadorna

• Until 2 February. “Schifano 1934-1998. Selected works”. Paintings, drawings, Polaroid photos, and an anthological film dedicated to this important Italian artist.

Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Via Alessandro Manzoni 12 • MM3 Montenapoleone.
Open Tues-Sun 10.00-18.00, closed Mon. Tickets: €8.

• Until 15 March: Netsuke - Sculptures in the palm of the hand. The “Lanfranchi collection” and other prestigious international works.

• Until 1 February: Art and music in 19^th century Milan. 26 musical instruments and paintings: high quality and historical value.

Triennale
Viale Alemagna 6 • MM1/2 Cadorna.
Open Tues-Sun 10.30-20.30, Mon closed. Info 02.724341, 02.8052.263

This venue is itself an interesting piece of architecture, designed by Giovanni Muzio and built in 1931-33 specifically for exhibitions. The Torre Branca nearby offers the chance to see Milan from about 100 metres up, at certain times of day and evening. The Just Cavalli cafè is at the base of the tower for chic aperitifs.

• Until 8 February: Alberto Burri. Solo show dedicated to one of Italy’s most important 20^th century artists. Entrance €5/8

• Until 28 February: Italian Design History. As well as objects for the home, the show includes projections by Peter Greenaway and a number of Italian film directors.

• Until 18 January: Il Parco. Solo show by Marina Ballo Charmet. Photos and video.

• Until 25 January: Design ultrapoverissimo. A selection of Riccardo Dalisi’s "ultra-poor” designs; a term used to indicate a style bereft of exterior richness.

Triennale Bovisa
Via Lambruschini 31 • Passante Villapizzone, FNM Bovisa, trams 1 and 3, bus 82 and 92
Open Tues-Sun 11.00-24.00, Cafeteria open 9.00-01.00, closed Mon.

• Until 1 February. Guido Crepax. The Italian comic-strip artist, and Valentina, his most famous character.

Rotonda della Besana
Via Enrico Besana 12 tram 29, 30 bus 84
Admission free. Open: Mon. 14.30 – 19.30, Tue - Sun 9.30 – 19.00, Wed. until 22.30.

• Until 6 January. Javier Marín "De 3 en 3". An exhibition by the Mexican artist, with open-air sections in Piazzetta Reale and Piazza della Scala.

Museo Diocesano
Corso di Porta Ticinese 95 • Tram 3
Open Tues-Sun 10.00-18.00, closed on Monday. Info 02.8940.4714, 02.8942.0019. Admission: €8.50.

• Until 11 January: A View of Nature. From Lorraine to Turner. Landscape paintings from the 16^th to the 18^th centuries.

PAC Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea
Via Palestro 14 • MM1 Palestro.
Open Tues-Sun 9.30-19.00, Mon 14.30-19.30 Thurs 9.30-22.30. Tickets: €4/6.

• Until 1 February. “Nouveau Réalisme from 1970 to today”. A tribute to Pierre Restany, the great French critic who made Milan his city of adoption. The best way to honour Restany is to review his greatest critical achievement, Nouveau Réalisme. Of the thirteen artists involved in the group, eleven are shown in this exhibition: César, Arman, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Mimmo Rotella, Jacques Villeglé, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gérard Deschamps, and Ugo Mulas.

On these posts we list a selection of exhibitions in Milan, representing some of the artistic and cultural highlights to be found in the city.
Of course, Milan offers much, much more…

Rock'n'Music Planet
Piazza Duomo 12 • MM1, MM3 Duomo
Open: Every day, 10.00-22.00.
Tickets: Entry costs €5, reduced price of €3 for students or pensioners, payable in cash or by card. For each ticket, 1 euro will be donated to the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, for the Cathedral’s maintenance and restoration.

• Until 15 March. Rock’n’Music Planet. An exhibition covering an area of 700 square metres, entirely dedicated to rock' n' roll music, from 1954 to today. The first show of its type in the whole of Italy, created by Red Ronnie, the most important rock & roll memorabilia collector in Europe. For further information visit www.rockandmusicplanet.com

Palazzo Reale
Piazza Duomo 12 • MM1, MM3 Duomo
Open: Mon 14.30-19.30; Tues-Sun 9.30-19.30; Thurs 9.30-22.30.
Tickets: €9/4.50 + €1.50 fee for online reservations. The ticket office closes one hour before exhibition closing time. For reservations visit www.ticket.it.

• Until 25 January. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. More than 100 paintings. The two artists met for the first time in 1884 and began the Neo-Impressionist movement. The show comprises paintings dating from 1885 to 1886, lent by the most important museums of the world.

• Until 18 January. Robert Frank. 80 art works by the Swiss photographer, from the Zurich Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz.

• Until 11 January: From Canaletto to Tiepolo. 17^th century Venetian paintings, with furniture and porcelain from the Terruzzi Collection.

• Until 29 March. René Magritte. Over 100 paintings, gouaches, collages and sculptures, from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.

• Until 29 March. L’anima dell’acqua. The soul of water. Over 120 masterpieces, from archaeology to Masolino da Panicale, Segantini, Caravaggio, Tintoretto... all about water.

Ä Palazzo Reale
Piazza Duomo 12 • MM1, MM3 Duomo
Open: Mon 14.30 - 19.30; Tue–Sun 9.30 - 19.30; Thu 9.30 - 22.30.
Tickets: €9/4.50 + €1.50 fee for online reservations. The ticket office closes one hour before exhibition closing time. For reservations visit www.ticket.it.
• Until 2 June: Canova at the court of the Tsar. From the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, some of the greatest works by sculptor Canova, plus a handful of other sculptures by a variety of classical artists.
• Until 2 June: Giacomo Balla. Original works spanning the career of one of the greatest Futurist artists. The first exhibition of this scale on Balla in thirty-seven years, and unusual for Milan where normally the focus lies on Boccioni.
• Until 29 June: Francis Bacon. The Irish artist, one of the great masters of the 20th century, will be shown next year at the Tate in London, El Prado in Madrid and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York... but first in Milan.
• Until 29 June: Arturo Ghergo. The Image of Beauty. 350 images by a great 20th century photographer. Film and fashion stars, celebrities, politicians, religious figures....

Ä PAC Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea
Via Palestro 14 • MM1 Palestro.
Open: Tues-Sun 9.30-19.00, Mon 14,30-19,30 Thurs 9.30-22.30. Tickets: €4/6.
• Until 15 June. Aron Demetz. Sculptures.
• Until 15 June. Adelchi-Riccardo Mantovani. Paintings

Ä Triennale
Viale Alemagna 6 • MM1/2 Cadorna. www.triennale.it.
Open: Tues-Sun 10.30-20.30, Mon closed. Info 02.724341, 02.8052.263
This venue is itself an interesting piece of architecture, designed by Giovanni Muzio and built in 1931-33 specifically for exhibitions. The Torre Branca nearby offers the chance to see Milan from about 100 metres up, at certain times of day and evening. The Just Cavalli cafè is at the base of the tower for chic aperitifs.
• Until 29 June: Freestyle: new Australian design for living. In collaboration with Melbourne Victoria Museum, and Object, Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney. 40 Australian designers, including Akira Isogawa, Easton Pearson, Zimmermann, Jon Goulder, Charles Wilson, Cerini and Dinosaur Designs. Entrance €4/5/6.
• Until 14 September: Naked life, and Today’s home. How to deal with the primordial needs of bare living, and of creating a city, today, in Milan, Italy, in cosmopolitan Europe and in the world. Entrance €5/6/8.

Ä Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Via Manzoni 12 • MM3 Montenapoleone.www.museopoldipezzoli.it
Open Tues-Sun 10.00-18.00. Closed Mon. Admission €8.
• Until 3 October: Paliotto del Pellicano. Once again on exhibition after meticulous restoration. A precious, handmade textile wall hanging, embroidered over a period of 300 years: from the 1500s to the 1800s.
• Until 12 October: The hunting carpet and other stories. A fragment of a 16th century Persian carpet, rediscovered in the Quirinale in Rome, and recently restored. See article on last page.

Ä Galleria Ca’ di Fra’
Via Carlo Farini, 2 • MM2 Moscova, bus 43, 70
Open Mon-Sat 10.00-13.00, 15.00-19.00 Entrance free.
· Until 14 July. Solo show by Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese multimedia artist

Ä Galleria Cavenaghi Arte
Via San Gregorio, 25 • MM1 Porta Venezia
Open Wed, Thurs, Fri 15.00-19.00, Sat 10.00-12.30 and by appointment.
· From 13 June until 5 July. Solo show by Luciano Maciotta: shaped canvas with lights.

Ä Fondazione Luciana Matalon
Foro Buonaparte 67 • MM1 Cairoli.
Open Tues-Sat 10-13, 14-19. Tel. 02.878781 Admission free.
• From 5 June until 25 June. Guido Daniele, Paintings on animals and nude bodies.

Ä Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala
Via Monte di Pietà 1 · MM1 Cairoli, MM3 Montenapoleone; bus 61; tram 1, 2, 20
Admission free. Open Tues-Sat 10.00-19.00, closed Sun and Mon.
• Until 19 July. Solo show by Ralph Müller, 22 large-format oils on canvas by the German artist.
Ä Galleria Carla Sozzani
Corso Como 10,
Open: Mon 15.30–19.00, Tues, Fri-Sun 10.30-19.30, Wed-Thurs 10.30-21.00.
• From 8 June until 3 August: Solo show by André Martin: “fragments d’une histoire naturelle”.

Ä Dynamo Art Club
Piazza Greco, 5 · MM3 Sondrio, bus 43
This is a nightlife venue (21.00 - 22.00 happy hour and DJ set; from 22.00 until 23.00, live acoustic performance. From 23.00 DJ set) that also runs art events.
· Until 18 June. Group show.

ÄInstituto Cervantes
(Sala mostre), Via Dante 12 • MM1 Cairoli.
Open Mon-Fri 16.00-20.00, Sat and Sun closed. Info 02.7202.3450. Admission free.
• From 6 June until 10 July. Solo show: Ángel Orcajo. 15 paintings by the Spanish artist.

Ä Spazio AG22 Della Rovere - Fondazione Mazzotta
Via Alserio 22 Milano
Open daily 10.00-19.30, Tues & Thurs 10.00-22.30.
• From 5 June Until 19 June. During the Ragnarock Nordic Festival, a photographic exhibition by Danish artist Soren Starbird.

Ä Fondazione Stelline
Sala del Collezionista, Corso Magenta 61 • MM1 Cadorna
Open Tues-Sat 10.00-19.00, Mon 14.00–19.00 Sun closed. www.stelline.it Info: Tel. 02.45462411. Admission free.
• Until 19 July. Pietro, Cesare, Vittoria Ligari. 40 paintings by these three 18th century Lombard artists.
Ä Fondazione Stelline
Chiostro della Magnolia, Corso Magenta 61 • MM1 Cadorna
• Until 16 October. Dreams of a Possible City, tending towards infinity, by Massimo Uberti. An artistic light installation, 27 metres in diameter, 14 metres high. In partnership with Genworth Financial.

Ä Castello Sforzesco
Piazza Cairoli • MM1 Cairoli.
• Until 26 October. Eugenio Quarti. The “prince of cabinet-makers”.
In the Sale Viscontee and courtyards. Admission included in Museum ticket (3€). Open Tues-Sun 9.00-17.30.
• Until 8 June. Matthew Spender. Contemporary Archaeology. 149 artworks by the London-born sculptor, who now lives in Gaiole in Chianti, Siena: terra cotta, stone, painted wood, paintings. His female figures show an unusual attention to hairstyle. Admission free. Open Mon 14.30.19.30, Tues-Sun 9.30-19.30, Thurs open until 22.30.

Ä Church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa
Via Neera 24 ● MM2 Abbiategrasso tram 3 - 15
Open every day 9.00–12.00, 16.00-19.00
• Until 19 October. “Light” by Pino Pedano. 12 wooden sculptures. This church way out in the suburbs is famous for its coloured neon lighting installation by Dan Flavin.

Ä White Star Adventure
Piazza Meda, corner of Piazza Belgioioso • MM1 San Babila.
Open every day 10.00-20.30. Admission free.
• Until 5 June. Aria acqua terra fuoco. Water, air, fire, earth. National Geographic Italia presents an exhibition of images by the most important National Geographic Society photographers.
• From 14 June until 14 July. Submarine Rainbow. The sea becomes art. Breathtaking macrophotography by Jeffrey L.Rotman.

Ä Galleria Grazia Neri
Via Maroncelli 14 ● MM2 Garibaldi tram 3, 4, 7
Open Mon-Fri 9.00–13.00, 14.30–18.00; Sat 10.00-12.30, 15.00–17.00. Admission free. Tel. 02 625271
• Until 13 June. Enchanted Reality. Photographs by Sibylle Bergemann. Exhibition organized in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Mailand.

Ä Spazio Oberdan
Viale Vittorio Veneto 2 • MM1 Porta Venezia.
Open Tues-Sun 10.00-19.30, Tues and Thurs until 22.00, Mon closed. Entrance €2.50/4
• From 12 June until 14 September. Beatles 1968. In the 40th anniversary year of 1968, year of student protests in Italy, a show on the Beatles, presenting their history, their transformations, and the signs that seem to link the height of their popularity to the eve of the end of the most famous pop group in history. The history of the Beatles thus becomes a metaphor for changes in society.

Ä Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta
Foro Bonaparte 50 • MM1 Cairoli, MM3 Lanza
Open daily 10.00-19.30, Mon. closed. Entrance free
• From 13 June until 27 July. A show dedicated to painter Trento Longaretti’s 70-year career.

Ä The Flat - Massimo Carasi Arte Contemporanea
Via Vaina, 2
Open Tues–Fri 15.30-19.30
• Until 18 July. Burythehatchet. A double solo show featuring Scott Campbell and Jeremiah Maddock, a celebration of a rediscovered friendship; a sort of blood pact.

Ä Galleria Il Castello
Via Brera, 16
Open Tues–Sat 10.30-14.00, 15.00-19.00 Entrance free.
• Until 19 July. Gianni Dova. Retrospective. 30 years of paintings, from 1950 to 1980.



Permanent Exhibitions



Ä Museo d’Arte e Scienza
Via Quinto Sella 4, right across from the Castello Sforzesco • MM1 Cordusio
Open Mon-Fri 10.00-18.00, Sat 10.00-14.00. Admission: €6. www.museoartescienza.com

• Leonardo, citizen of Milan - permanent exhibit

A museum that enables you to learn more about Leonardo da Vinci. Most people just associate da Vinci with the Last Supper, but in fact he was here for almost twenty years, from 1482 on. A large map of Milan shows where Leonardo worked and lived, and also marks the estate that the Duke gave him in order to make him a true citizen of the city – citizens had to be landowners. There are models of several designs, and some can be tested by visitors. Reproductions of pages from his notebooks document his interest in human anatomy, with figures that are very similar to those of modern day text books.

Downstairs, the focus is on Leonardo's “Treatise on Painting”, a series of essays that he had planned to make into a book, but never finished. Various sections illustrate different themes, such as sculpture, light, shadow and colour. In each section there are interactive experiments, such as how different light sources alter the look of a sculpture. Also in this museum there are collector's items from around the world, including Greek vases, Chinese pottery, African masks and Buddhist sculpture, and a laboratory that illustrates how the genuine articles can be told from the fakes. You can test some of the pieces yourself. The museum is very tourist-friendly, and the explanations are displayed in four languages, Italian, English, German and French.