Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

Biblioteca e Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

A 400-year-old library with Caravaggio's fruit basket and Leonardo's codex

⚠ Closed Wed

Hours

10:00–18:00 (ticket office closes 17:15); closed Wednesdays

Tickets

Gallery + crypt adults €20; under-18s and university students €13; over-65s €15; ages 6–14 €5; 5 and under free; €1.50 booking fee per ticket

Address

Piazza Pio XI 2, five minutes' walk west of the Duomo

Opened in the early 1600s as a library and picture gallery, it's compact but dense with masterpieces. Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit is smaller than you'd think, down to the worm-eaten leaves; Raphael's full-size cartoon for The School of Athens fills an entire room. There's Leonardo's Portrait of a Musician, plus rotating sheets from his Codex Atlanticus notebooks, and the old reading room lined with antique books is a sight on its own.