Pinacoteca di Brera

The Pinacoteca di Brera is a national gallery of ancient and modern, located in the palace of Milan.
The museum houses one of the most famous collections of paintings in Italy, specializing in painting Veneto and Lombardy, with important pieces of other schools. In addition, thanks to donations, offers an exhibition that ranges from prehistory to contemporary art, with works by artists of the twentieth century.
The Art Gallery is housed in the grand palace of Brera, which also houses other institutions: the National Library Braidense, the observatory of Brera, the Botanical Gardens, the Lombard Institute of Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts L 'building was built in the ancient, land uncultivated "braida" (a word that in the low Latin had the meaning of field suburban), who gave him the name Brera, the Palace because the district. The building opens onto a courtyard surrounded by an elegant portico, in the center there is the Monument to Napoleon I conceived by Antonio Canova.