Grandparents are our first teachers, the tellers of the most beautiful stories and the keepers of precious memories.
At the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, we celebrate their love and wisdom with a special gift: on Sunday 6 October, grandparents enter the Pinacoteca and the Crypt of San Sepolcro for free, accompanied by their grandchildren.
PINACOTECA
10.00-18.00
06/10/2024
Free admission for grandparents with their grandchildren.
Exactly two hundred and sixty years ago, in 1764, the well-known Milanese jurist Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) finished writing his masterpiece, the treatise On Crimes and Punishments, and published it in the same year. In the exhibition The treatise On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria, from Milan to Europe to the World the original manuscript of the work, the Italian editio princeps, will be exhibited, and all the other first editions that followed in the various European languages, including two recent non-European publications, testifying to a diffusion that spread from Milan throughout Europe and the entire world.
Read morePINACOTECA
Everyday 10.00-18.00
Closed on Wednesdays
Dal 19/09/2024 al 17/12/2024
Full: € 18,00; Reduced 1: € 10,00; Reduced 2: € 13,00
Join us for a guided tour of the masterpieces of the Pinacoteca, together with professional guides of our official partner AdArtem
Read morePINACOTECA
15.30
14/09/2024 | 28/09/2024 | 05/10/2024 | 19/10/2024 | 02/11/2024 | 16/11/2024 | 07/12/2024 | 21/12/2024
€ 25.00 guided tour and headsets included
The most magical and ancient places of Milan: the ancient Forum where Constantine, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine and Theodosius walked, and the lower Church of Santo Sepolcro, built by the Crusaders… as well as a colossal statue of St. Charles Borromeo on Lake Maggiore; a Museum-Home at the Sacro Monte of Varese; a Foundation dedicated to the promotion of young artists: this is also the Ambrosiana!
Discover the other institutions of the Ambrosiana
Between 1990 and 1992, archaeological excavations conducted underneath the ancient cellars of the Ambrosiana brought to light a portion of the pavement of the ancient Roman forum, the heart of Mediolanum's political, economic and religious life.
The Marco Mantovani Foundation seeks to preserve and enhance the works of the sculptor Marco Mantovani, as evidence of the life of an artist dedicated to sculpture and art.
The church of San Sepolcro was founded in 1030, when a Milanese moneyer named Rozzone built a church on the ancient Roman forum. Archbishop Ariberto d’Intimiano solemnly consecrated it to the Holy Trinity.
Lodovico Pogliaghi was one of the most significant Lombard artists to live in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Colossus of Saint Charles in Arona, which popular tradition has affectionately dubbed San Carlone, was created in the seventeenth century at the behest of Federico Borromeo, archbishop of Milan and founder of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
