Museum sights in Milan
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Museo Inter & Milan
Officially it’s called Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, after a Milanese champion of the 1930s and ‘40s, but to football fans it’s simply San Siro. Milan’s two football teams AC Milan and FC Internazionale (Inter) play here every weekend from October to May. The distinctive red-girdered roof and striped concrete towers were added when the stadium was renovated for the 1990 World Cup, the design also boosting its capacity to 85,700. Serie A fans head for the Museo Inter e Milan, boasting nonstop screenings of matches, memorabilia and trophies galore. Carnival-style papier-mâché dummies of two-dozen football stars (spot your favourite: Gullit, Rijkaard and Matthaus are all t…
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Casa Museo Boschi-Di Stefano
Milan’s best collection of 20th-century Italian painting is not proudly displayed in a purpose-built soaring white box. Somewhat tellingly, it’s crowded salon-style in a Piero Portaluppi-designed 1930s apartment that still has the appearance of the haute-bourgeois home it once was. It’s a heady art hit, with Boccioni’s dynamic brushstrokes propelling painting towards Futurism, the nostalgically metaphysical Campigli and De Chirico, and the restless, expressionist Informels all occupying a small space. Don’t miss the double-header of ''concetti spaziali'' (spacialist experiments) from Milan’s most important midcentury artists Fontana and Manzoni. The provocative slashed ca…
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Museo Teatrale alla Scala
Attending a performance here is incredible. Otherwise, you can also just peek inside as part of a visit to the in-house Museo Teatrale alla Scala, provided there are no performances or rehearsals in progress. On the museum’s ground floor is a chronologically arranged collection of opera-related items, including original advertising posters and the death mask and hand cast of Giuseppe Verdi, who premiered numerous operas here.
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Museo Civico di Storia Naturale
A life story unfolds as you follow pebble paths past bumper cars and a carousel, onward past a game of kick to kick, kissing teens, a beer kiosk, baby prams, jogging paths and shady benches. Jump in, or just stop and smell the roses. For grey days the charming Museo Civico di Storia Naturale beckons, the grand neo-Romanesque building houses dinosaurs, fossils and the largest geology collection in Europe.
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Artemide
Aesthetically inclined genies everywhere would like to announce that they're done with the whole brass oil-lamp schtick, and would appreciate if you'd rub on an Artemide next time you want a wish granted. Giancarlo Matteoli's 1965 blue mushroom-shaped Nesso table lamp would be ideal, and the Dalú transparent orange plastic study light shaped like hoodie sweatshirt would suit a smallish sprite.
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Museo Diocesano
Don't be taken in by the false modesty of these tranquil white 16th-century cloisters: Milan's archdiocese has quite a collection, and knows how to put on a show. A recent exhibit spotlighted Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, whose views of Jesus on the cross from the feet up established him as the reigning champion of extreme perspective.
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Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica
Kids and would-be inventors will go goggle-eyed at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica. Exhibits range from models that test da Vinci’s far-fetched designs to electricity, astronomy, or clock- and guitar-making. Book ahead to tour a 1940s submarine.
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Bisazza
The first and last name in modern mosaics has opened a Milan showroom where tiny tesserae get together and stage riots of colour and pattern, then mysteriously cohere into a fluttering kelp forest, or luminous jellyfish trailing tentacles like royal trains.
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Museo Poldi-Pezzoli
Botticelli’s Madonna and Child is the star attraction at the Museo Poldi-Pezzoli. Home to Milan’s most important private collection, it also displays some superb porcelain, jewellery, tapestries, antique furniture and paintings.
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Civico Museo Archeologico
The Monastero Maggiore, a 9th-century Benedictine convent rebuilt in the 1500s, is a dramatic backdrop for the extensive collections of Roman, Greek and Etruscan artefacts housed in the Civico Museo Archeologico.
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Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
Though born a few centuries too late, the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers were determined to be Renaissance men, and from 1878 to 1887 built their home as a living museum of the Quattrocento.
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Triennale di Milano
At the Castello Sforzesco is the Triennale di Milano, with a museum dedicated to Italian design.
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