What's on in Milan

Museo Bagatti Valsecchi

Over 25 artist's books by Edizioni Palazzo Lisio, made by about fifteen artists and poets, to look at, leaf through and touch among the museum's rooms and library.

Triennale Milano

Over 200 works tracing Nivola's transatlantic career, from Olivetti graphics and sand-cast concrete reliefs to large anthropomorphic sculptures.

PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea

Italy's first retrospective of Sheila Hicks: 200+ fibre works on identity, feminism and colour, curated by Diego Sileo.

PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea

Archival show on Hicks's 1960 Milan meeting with Piero Dorazio: three Dorazio paintings from 1960, a site-specific tribute and Hicks works he inspired.

Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini

About 100 black-and-white photographs of postwar Italy and the economic miracle, with portraits of Guttuso, Campigli, Elsa Morante and Ungaretti.

Fondazione Prada

Site-specific project in the Cisterna: three installations built on Hatoum's web, map and grid motifs, reflecting on the turmoil of our times and the precariousness of existence.

Museo Teatrale alla Scala

Rare photographs from the Pina Bausch Foundation archive of the rehearsals for Le Sacre du printemps, ahead of its first staging by the La Scala Ballet.

Triennale MilanoFree

Free show of the winning photographers of the 2026 Deloitte Photo Grant, an international award for contemporary documentary photography, in the Impluvium.

Villa Necchi Campiglio

44 of Piero Portaluppi's key drawings, from youthful caricatures to villas and public buildings, curated by Roberto Dulio in the villa's newly restored attic.

Armani/Silos

About 150 haute couture creations from two decades of Giorgio Armani Privé, including red-carpet gowns, filling all four floors of the museum. Extended to 20 December 2026.

Museo Teatrale alla Scala

Period photographs trace La Scala's rebuilding after the 1943 bombing, up to Toscanini's historic reopening concert of 11 May 1946, 80 years on.

Triennale Milano

The latest in a series of Sottsass shows around Casa Lana, drawing on works from the Museo del Design Italiano collection.

GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna

Mumbai artist Shilpa Gupta's new works on language, censorship, borders and hope, set in dialogue with GAM's 19th-century collection across the courtyard and five ground-floor rooms.

Palazzo Citterio

First major posthumous retrospective of Carlo Maria Mariani: about seventy paintings and large cartoons, from the 1940s to 2019, on the second floor.

Palazzo Citterio

For the Brera Academy's 250th anniversary, works by its 20th-century and contemporary teachers, from Wildt and Carrà to Marini and Fabro, in the Sala Stirling.

ADI Design Museum

The 40 shortlisted projects of the EUmies Awards 2026 in photographs, videos and models, on transforming existing buildings. The award returns to Milan after ten years.

Palazzo Reale di Milano

Centenary retrospective of photographer and writer Carla Cerati: Milan street life, the asylum exposé Morire di classe, portraits, theatre and the body.

Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

For the 800th anniversary of St Francis's death: four paintings, engravings and drawings of his life, many shown for the first time, including sheets from the Codice Resta.

Pirelli HangarBicoccaFree

Two decades of Aki Sasamoto's installations, sculptures, videos and performances in the Shed, using graphs, diagrams and rotating mechanisms to probe human connection.

Palazzo Reale di Milano

Italy's largest ever Francis Picabia show: 170+ paintings, drawings, photos and archive pieces exploring night as a metaphor for desire and reinvention.

Museo Poldi Pezzoli

Dossier show on Titian's ties to Milan, built around a canvas never shown publicly, on long-term loan from a private collector; three autograph works and one copy.

Palazzo Reale di Milano

Over 200 paintings, drawings, photos, garments and jewels trace Salvador Dalí's surrealist collaborations with fashion designers, photographers and maisons.

Castello Sforzesco

About a hundred works by the Brescia metalworker Nino Ferrari in silver, copper and pewter, with archive letters, photographs and his collaboration with Gio Ponti, in the Sala della Balla.

Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini

A single-masterpiece loan from Capodimonte: Artemisia's 1630 Annunciation, her first known work painted in Naples, showing her at full maturity.

Triennale MilanoFree

American Neo-Conceptualist Peter Halley brings three decades of prints, installation and new digital works to the spaces of Cucina Triennale.

Palazzo Reale di Milano

Italy's first major show on the Brueghel dynasty: 80+ paintings, drawings and prints tracing how they shaped landscape, still life, peasant and battle genres.

Gallerie d'Italia Milano

Photographs from major archives chart 80 years of Italian women's gains, from the 1946 vote through work, feminism, divorce and abortion rights, to contemporary artists.

Pinacoteca di Brera

Centenary of the Amici di Brera: paintings, sculptures, drawings and documents that entered the Pinacoteca through the Association's gifts, many not normally on view.

MUDEC Museo delle Culture

About 100 works tracing how African, Islamic, Russian, Pacific and Chinese art reshaped Henri Matisse, with objects and fabrics from his own collection.

Pirelli HangarBicoccaFree

Retrospective of Luciano Fabro in the Navate: about fifty sculptures and installations, many rebuilt as environmental "habitats", tracing his five-decade inquiry into space and perception.

Palazzo Reale di Milano

Twenty years after her death, iconic and unseen photos, manuscripts and personal objects portray journalist Oriana Fallaci, her method, battles and legacy. Nov 2026-Feb 2027.

Fondazione Prada

150+ artworks tracing links between the Mediterranean and Asia from c. 700 BC to 1000 AD, curated by Salvatore Settis and team in a Podium set by Rem Koolhaas and AMO/OMA.

Museo del Novecento

Notebooks, magazines, letters and recordings from critic Tommaso Trini's archive, from Domus to his magazine DATA, in the Archivi Ettore e Claudia Gian Ferrari.

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci

Sergio Raffaele and Tiziano Demuro's photographs of Milan's metro as a hidden, metaphysical city, shown among the trains of the Railway Pavilion.

Museo Teatrale alla Scala

Fifty years after his death, costumes, sketches, photos and archive papers retrace Visconti's Scala productions, from the 1955 Callas Traviata to his unrealised Ring.

Pinacoteca di Brera

The "travelling gallery" of Count Sommariva: 99 miniature enamels (1810-1825) copying Neoclassical masterpieces from his collection, carried with him across Europe.

Pinacoteca di Brera

Twelve restored plaster busts by Antonio Canova, lent by Banca Ifis, join a marble Vestal back at Brera after a century, celebrating the museum's Neoclassical roots.