slideshow .:. Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli, the founder of this illustrious house museum which has served as a point of reference for other important museum-homes in Europe and the US (Frick Collection, Jacquemart-André, Wallace Collection, Isabella Stewart Gardner), came from one of Milan's oldest, most cultured and most well-endowed families. The Poldi Pezzoli collection was gradually gathered together in the building which still houses it today.
.:. The museum, which has been open to the public since 1881, exhibits important paintings, arms and armour, jewels, carpets, textiles, lacework, furnishings, sundials, sculptures and Murano glass.
.:. There are paintings by Pollaiolo, Botticelli, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Piero della Francesca, Cosmè Tura, Foppa, Solario, Luini, Boltraffio, Cesare da Sesto, Fra' Galgario, Bergognone, Guardi, Canaletto, Tiepolo.

Portrait of a Woman by Piero del Pollaiolo at Museo Poldi Pezzoli

Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Via Alessandro Manzoni 12
Monte Napoleone district
Montenapoleone

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 Euro 14 / Euro 6
[+39] 02 794889

Wed-Mon 10am-6pm (last admission 5pm), closed on public holidays