Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Milano

Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Milano
Milano, Italy

From 1903 the Galleria d’Arte Moderna preserves the modern art collections of the City of Milan, an artistic heritage of about 3,500 works. The collections are displayed from 1921 within the Villa Reale, one of the masterpieces of milan’s neoclassical era. Designed by the architect Leopoldo Pollock, it was built between 1790 and 1796 as the house of the earl Lodovico Barbiano di Belgioioso. Villa Reale later became the residence of the Viceroy Eugenio di Beauharnais, stepson of Napoleon.
Among the undisputed protagonists of the Milanese and Italian art history present in the collection there are Antonio Canova, Andrea Appiani, Francesco Hayez, Tranquillo Cremona, Giovanni Segantini, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Giovanni Boldini, Medardo Rosso, Gaetano Previati.
Thanks to private collections and to the donations of important families, such as Grassi and Vismara, the artistic heritage of the Gallery has been enriched with masterpieces of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The exhibition activity of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna dialogues with applied art, the contemporary languages ​​and the thematic analysis of artists present in the permanent collection.

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Modern Art GalleryVia Palestro, 16
20121 Milano MI
Italy
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Opening hours
MondayClosed
Tuesday10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Wednesday10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Thursday10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Friday10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Sunday10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
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