Though possibly best known internationally as the capital of Italian design and fashion, Milan is also a city of art, home to masterpieces by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, among many others.
Therefore, being in Milan for tourism, shopping, to visit the Furniture Fair or Fashion Week, is also a good opportunity to visit one of its many museums and art galleries.
In general, most of the city’s cultural venues are located in central Milan and can be easily reached by the public transport network, quite efficient for an Italian city.
Local cuisine is typically north-Italian and famous for dishes such as the Risotto alla Milanese, the Milanese veal cutlet (cotoletta), and the Ossobuco with rice, also very popular is the aperitivo, a pre-dinner drink usually served with abundant complimentary finger food.
Milan is the city with the highest number of Michelin-starred restaurants in Italy; one of them, the 3-star Ristorante Enrico Bartolini, is located inside the MUDEC Museum of Cultures.
If you are planning traveling to Milan, please consider that its climate is not that of a typically Mediterranean city, winter’s weather is often wet, foggy and gloomy, and summers are frequently torrid and humid; usually, the capital of Lombardy is at its best from early spring to mid-autumn.
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Biblioteca & Pinacoteca Ambrosiana museum, Milan

Castello Sforzesco – Sforza Castle, Milan

Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan

MUDEC – Museum of Cultures | Milan

Museo del Novecento (Museum of the 20th century), Milan

Museo Martinitt e Stelline

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia – Milan

Museo Poldi Pezzoli – Milan

PAC – Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea

Pinacoteca di Brera

Pirelli HangarBicocca – Milan

Studio-Museo Achille Castiglioni

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci – Santa Maria delle Grazie – Milan

The Shoah Memorial of Milan

Triennale Design Museum – La Triennale di Milano

The new “Torre” of the Fondazione Prada Milan by Rem Koolhaas / OMA

Prada opens Osservatorio, a new gallery focused on photography in Milan

Prada Foundation Milan p.1- OMA’s architecture

Prada Foundation Milan p. 2 – the art collection

Milan | Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietà museum

2021 Milan Furniture Fair postponed, again

Milan Design Week 2019 | Italian artist uses two tons of plastic bottle caps to make giant artwork

Milan Design Week 2019 | Estudio Campana transforms a cloister into a grass-covered installation

Milan Design Week 2019 | TAKT PROJECT creates stalactite-like lighting installation

Milan Design Week 2019 | SaloneSatellite: the award-winning designers

Milan Design Week 2019 | Starck’s mirror and Grcic’s glass lamps by FLOS

Milan Design Week 2019 | COS + Mamou-Mani present “Conifera” 3D-printed installation

Milan Design Week 2019 | The 5VIE district, between art and design

“Broken Nature” Can design save the world?

The 2019 edition of the “Salone del Mobile.Milano” celebrates Leonardo da Vinci

The Milan Triennale presents Italian Design through its Icons

Milan Design Week 2018 | Michael Anastassiades’ light installation for FLOS

Milan Design Week 2018 | FLOS pays tribute to Achille Castiglioni

Rail yard redevelopment projects create new urban scenarios for Milan

“Too good to waste” installation by Benedetta Tagliabue | Milan Design Week 2017

Inspired in Barcelona. Catalan design at Palazzo Isimbardi | Milan Design Week 2017

Maarten Baas presents the 101 Chair at Ventura Centrale | Milan design Week 2017

Lee Broom “Time Machine” at Ventura Centrale in Milan

Milan Design Week 2017 | Design Nomade at Base focuses on contemporary nomadic living

Milan Design Week 2017 | Inhabits: micro-architecture prototypes at Parco Sempione

Milan Design Week 2017 | Wave/Cave ceramic pavilion by SHoP Architects
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Milan Design Week 2017 | [róng] : from traditional Chinese craft to contemporary design

“Giro Giro Tondo. Design for children”. The 10th edition of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan

“Arbor Lights” in Milan by Not a Number Architects

Open Borders – between design and architecture at Milan University

Fuorisalone at Ventura Lambrate | Milan Design Week

Before Design: Classic | the origins of Italian design

Report from Milan Furniture Fair 2016

New Craft – Technology meets craft at Fabbrica Del Vapore

Milan | exhibition Sempering: materials and forms

XX1T Milan | Neo-Prehistory. 100 verbs

XX1T Milan | 21st Century Design After Design

The International Exhibitions of the Triennale di Milano

Dismantling EXPO, the dark side of architecture

Milan | Paul Gauguin. Tales from Paradise

Milan | All the worlds of Barbie at Mudec museum

Milan |”Gaspare Ash Works” at The Open box

The future of EXPO 2015 sails into troubled waters

Milan | EXPO 2015 | United Kingdom Pavilion

Milan – EXPO 2015 | Pavilion of Italy

Make in Italy – 50 years of Italian innovation

Milan | EXPO 2015 | The Pavilion Zero

Alma Mater – a multimedia total-artwork in Milan

Milan | EXPO 2015 | The German pavilion

Milan EXPO 2015 | Swiss Pavilion

Milan EXPO 2015 | Pavilion of Spain

Milan EXPO 2015 | Pavilion of Brazil

EXPO Milan 2015 | The UAE pavilion by Foster + Partners

Milan – EXPO 2015 | Pavilion of France

Milan | EXPO 2015 | Land of Hope – China pavilion

EXPO Milan 2015 | Breathe Austria, Austrian Pavilion

“Energy for Creativity” at the University of Milan

Milan | Favilla: a tale of light

Milan | Camera Chiara by Annabel Karim Kassar

Milan | Future Flowers – installation by Libeskind

Pictures from the 2015 Milan Furniture Fair

Milan Design Week | De Lucchi’s “Walk”

Milan | EXPO Gate pavilions by Scandurra Studio

EXPO Milan 2015 | Arts & Foods at the Triennale

Milan | “The Rules of the Game”

Milan | MaTeinItaly: the story of maths

Milan | The elusive Ugo La Pietra

Milan | Feeding . New ideas for the city

Elica Ring pavilion by stARTT

Postcards from the 2014 Milan Furniture Fair

Milan | Where Architects Live exhibition

Milan | Italian Design Icons

Triennale Design Museum 7th Edition

Milan | The Cildo Meireles Installations exhibition at HangarBicocca

Milan | Piero Fornasetti exhibition
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