Ambrosiana

Guided tours with exclusive access

Visitors to the Library and Art Gallery are offered various options for visiting and exploring the precious treasures they display, starting with the rooms of the museum that preserve the original collection donated in 1618 by Cardinal Borromeo.
This collection includes Renaissance masterpieces that have been highly influential in the history of Italian art. They range from Titian to Luini, Botticelli, Bramantino, Raphael – with the renowned preparatory cartoon for The School of Athens, absolutely unique – to Brueghel’s fascinating oil paintings on copper.

Our visit then continues following the art history timeline with works from the 19th century. Visitors will be able to admire important masterpieces in an absolutely fascinating architectural setting, and finally the historic reading room, the original heart of the Library.
Here the pages from Leonardo’s renowned Codex Atlanticus and Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit are on display.
Following restoration work over the last few years, now it is also possible to visit the area of the Roman Forum and above-ground and underground areas of the Church of San Sepolcro.
These are places where you will rediscover the centuries of history of the city of Milan and the important events that took place in it, featuring figures such as the Lombard crusaders, Leonardo and St. Charles Borromeo. Then bear in mind that this is the exact geometrical centre of the city.

Tours to the art gallery
• Great Masters tour
• Leonardo tour (Aula Leonardi and Sala Federiciana with the Codex Atlanticus)
• Galbiati Wing
• Church of San Sepolcro
• Archaeological excavations of the Roman Forum

WHAT’S ON

PORT ROYAL ET L'ITALIE

Ambrosiana

PORT ROYAL ET L'ITALIE

Annual international conference of the Society of Friends of Port-Royal is held, October 13-14 2023, Sala delle Accademie E.R. Galbiati.

13/10/2023-14/10/2023
CONFERENCE
 DON FERRANTE'S BOOKS IN THE BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA

Pinacoteca

DON FERRANTE'S BOOKS IN THE BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA

An exhibition that aims at reconstructing the "considerable collection of books” belonging to Don Ferrante, which Alessandro Manzoni describes in the Promessi Sposi (The Bethroted).

04/05/2023-10/10/2023
Exhibition
NEW COMBO TICKET DUOMO + AMBROSIANA AND SAN SEPOLCRO CRYPT

Ambrosiana

NEW COMBO TICKET DUOMO + AMBROSIANA AND SAN SEPOLCRO CRYPT

The combo ticket Duomo + Ambrosiana is available in a new version which includes also the Ascent on foot to the Duomo terraces and access to the San Sepolcro Crypt.

06/04/2023
NEWS
GUIDED TOURS IN ENGLISH

Ambrosiana

GUIDED TOURS IN ENGLISH

Every Saturday at 15.30 a guided tour of the masterpieces of the Pinacoteca, together with professional guides of our official partner AdArtem

01/04/2023-30/12/2023
GRANPARENTS’ DAY

Pinacoteca

GRANDPARENTS' DAY

On Sunday October 1 and Monday October 2, free admission for all grandparents with their grandchildren

27/09/2022
NEWS