Visiting the museum
- • The main entrance to the Museum is accessible to visitor with reduced mobility.
- • Courtesy wheelchair available.
- • There are emergency routes and emergency exits: ground floor and second floor are accessible to the visitors with reduced mobility. The Alarm device is both visual and audible.
- • The Museum has an elevator (its door is 75 cm wide) located on the left of the entrance.
- • There is a restroom for disabled on the ground floor.
- • A changing table is available at the entrance of the toilet area.
- • Parking: in Via Monte di Pietà with spaces for people with disabilities.
The Museum offers tours
and tailor made tours
Stefania Rossi | rossi@
Social inclusion
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum pursues social inclusion with commitment and sense of responsibility, in collaboration with other qualified entities and institutions. In 2021 the Museum carried out the following projects curated by Stefania Rossi, head of social inclusion projects, with the collaboration of Camila Amoros, art historian, and Maddalena Camera, cultural mediator.
Poldi PezzoLIS
The museum also works to ensure that the deaf community has targeted and easy accessibility to the artistic heritage, meeting their specific needs in ways that have been tested and implemented in collaboration with the National Board for the Deaf (ENS).
Ora d’arte
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum by virtue of an agreement with the Center for Restorative Justice and Criminal Mediation of the Municipality of Milan implements a series of educational paths for minors subject to criminal measures.
Teens and the Museum
In 2015, the Museum began a collaboration with the City of Milan’s Adolescent Education Service (SEA) and the Center for Restorative Justice and Criminal Mediation to provide an opportunity for 11- to 16-year-olds at risk of marginalization to broaden their cultural experiences.
Art Has No Age
An inclusion project dedicated to visitors of the third age created thanks to the support of Rotary Club Milano Est and with the involvement of the Museum’s Youth Group and the inCerchio Association, which works to protect and promote the rights of frail people.
Poldo Piccolo Baranzate
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum proposes and develops paths and activities aimed at combating school dropout and educational poverty among children and families.
Ospiti privilegiati
The Privileged Guests project, implemented in 2014/2015 and supported by the Intesa San Paolo Charitable Fund, enabled the Museum to implement a specific hosting program for disadvantaged groups such as minors in difficulty and to offer a rich summer offer specifically designed for families.
Visit the Museum with Poldo
Poldo, the little ghost, was born as the narrating voice of the audio guides that have been accompanying young visitors to discover the Museum since 2005. He is a little ghost who inhabits the rooms of what had once been the apartment of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli.
Head of Social Inclusion Initiatives
Stefania Rossi
with the collaboration
by Camila Amoros
e: rossi@
t: +39 02 45473812
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2024, MARCH 20 — JUNE 24
Piero della Francesca
The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited
On display, for the first time in history, eight panels from five international museums. In a unique and unrepeatable exhibition, at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, with the support of Fondazione Bracco as Main Partner, a masterpiece by Piero della Francesca (1412-1492): the Augustinian Polyptych will be presented-for the first time in history, after 555 years since its creation.
Reasons to visit the Poldi Pezzoli Museum
because it is a house-museum that in its historical rooms has preserved the charm of a 19th century residence.
to know a great Milanese art collector.
for the wide range of its collections, from Archaeology to the 19th century.
to admire masterpieces by painters as Pollaiuolo, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raffaello, Piero della Francesca, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Hayez
for the amazing collections of sundials and clocks, Murano glass, Meissen porcelain.
to discover a palace overlooking a beautiful hidden garden, and a romantic Orangerie.
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Our museum is an extraordinary place where history comes alive and works of art tell timeless stories. As passionate custodians of this heritage, we are committed to keeping this treasure alive for present and future generations.
