The best museums Lombardy

This museum is located in the old orphanage of Milan, the Martinitt, located in the Lambrate district (in the suburbs of Milan). More than 2 000 objects, rudimentary or more sophisticated, made in the most diverse materials, make the toy history, from the th century to the present. The museum's curiosity is the rebuilding of the school class that makes the subject of one of the favourite books of Italian children, Cuore, of Amicis de Amicis. A library and educational and entertaining laboratories also allow your children to develop their imagination. Finally, a projection room offers animated films and cartoons… but only in Italian.

Interesting to discover the history and developments of the city through the centuries and see paintings of the ancient Milan, including its old canals, buried since then.

Passing through the narrow town of Palazzo Real, go to the discovery of this church accompanied by a beautiful Gothic campanile.

Not far from Torino and the Duomo Square, this museum is among the richest in Italy. The Pinacothèque ambrosienne was formed from the private collection of Federico Borromeo (1618), cardinal of Milan and lifeguard of several masterpieces located in the Milanese palaces during the plague that hit the city in 1630 (you will find a detailed description of this plague in the now classical book of Alessandro Manzoni, Les Betrothed).

The modern art gallery is located within the Villa Reale of Milan, a splendid neoclassical building surrounded by the gardens of Porta Venezia. It houses paintings and sculptures from the th and th centuries, including the famous painting of the proletariat, the Fourth State, of Pellizza da Volpedo. Also remarkable are the collections of the French Impressionist: Renoir, Manet, Cézanne and some Picasso.

Open since 2021, the Diocesan Museum of Cremona is located in the basement of an ^18th-century episcopal palace. It houses the cathedral's treasures, some one hundred works arranged in various thematic sections, such as the origins of the diocese of Cremona, the Incarnation and the Virgin, and the Cross. Room 11 is dedicated to the Tavola di Sant'Agata, a precious wood painting produced in the late ^13th century by an unknown Lombard artist, probably from Cremona. It is a pivotal work in the artistic history of northern Italy.