May 2026
May 2026 at a glance: 5 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 12 more were on view across the city.

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 · Free
A solo show turning the space into a domestic setting of hybrid art-design works, reconfigured four times over the run.

Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini
Retrospective of the Swiss Magnum photojournalist: 200 vintage prints plus contact sheets, from 1930s Switzerland through postwar Europe and Asia to the Americas.

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.

Gallerie d'Italia Milano
Some 45 works trace six decades of Arnaldo Pomodoro's sculpture, from his 1950s beginnings to 2000s experiments, with archive material and displays inspired by his own.

Palazzo Reale di Milano
Over forty monumental canvases by Anselm Kiefer in the bomb-scarred Sala delle Cariatidi, honouring forgotten women alchemists from Caterina Sforza to Mary Anne Atwood.

Museo del Novecento
Bruno Munari makes air visible: kinetic and programmed works centred on his 1969 action Far vedere l'aria in Como, documented in photographs by Ugo Mulas.

Museo del Novecento
Twin monographic focuses in the Gesti e Processi gallery: Paolo Scirpa's neon Ludoscopi illusions and fifty years of Alberto Garutti's work on doubt, thresholds and public space.

Fondazione Prada
Multimedia project in the Podium mixing photography, video, VR and archive to portray a global agricultural technology revolution, drawn from three years in Chinese farmlands.

Triennale Milano · Free
Conceptual art pioneer Robert Barry's word-based works in the Piano Parco spaces of Cucina Triennale, curated by Massimo Minini.

Triennale Milano
With Fondation Cartier, a monographic show on designer and theorist Andrea Branzi seen through Pritzker laureate Toyo Ito, including an installation on No-Stop City.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.