Pinacoteca di Brera

Pinacoteca di Brera (Palazzo di Brera)

Hayez's The Kiss and Mantegna's foreshortened Christ

⚠ Closed Mon

Hours

Tue–Sun 08:30–19:15 (last entry 18:00); closed Mondays, 1 May, 25 Dec and 1 Jan

Tickets

Adults €20, under-18s free, audio guide €5 (Aug–Sep 2026); timed booking on the official site

Address

Palazzo di Brera, Via Brera 28; climb the stairs behind the Napoleon statue in the courtyard

The palace is shared with an art academy, so students with portfolio tubes cut across the courtyard past a nude bronze Napoleon. Upstairs the gallery runs through a long chain of rooms with one famous picture after another: Mantegna's Dead Christ, seen feet-first; Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin; Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus; and Hayez's The Kiss. Halfway round, a glass-walled restoration lab lets you watch conservators at work.