2 Best Sights in Brera, Milan

The collection here is star-studded even by Italian standards. Highlights include the somber Cristo Morto (Dead Christ) by Mantegna, which dominates Room VI with its sparse palette of umber and its foreshortened perspective, Raphael's (1483–1520) Sposalizio della Vergine (Marriage of the Virgin), and La Vergine con il Bambino e Santi (Madonna with Child and Saints), by Piero della Francesca (1420–92), an altarpiece commissioned by Federico da Montefeltro (shown kneeling, in full armor, before the Virgin).

Emilio and Maria Jesi were among the great Italian art collectors of the 20th century. Some of their treasured works from Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani are part of the permanent collection in this four-level museum, which opened at the end of 2024, and merges a modern building by Mario Cucinella (who also designed the Fondazione Luigi Rovati museum in Porta Venezia), with an 18th-century palazzo that was once the Jesi family home. Highlights from the permanent galleries on the first floor also include works by Umberto Boccioni and Georges Braque and paintings from the Pinacoteca di Brera (Brera Art Gallery). Temporary exhibitions on the second and ground floors have focused on contemporary art and the history of the Brera neighborhood.