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Milan, 23 April 2021 – “As soon as the yellow risk band is attributed to the Lombardy Region, the Municipality of Milan, in compliance with the rules set out in the most recent approved decree, will open the civic museums and all the exhibitions set up in its exhibition venues, starting from Palazzo Real". This was announced today by the Councilor for Culture Filippo Del Corno, also illustrating the exhibition program for the Milanese summer which sees many new exhibitions on the calendar.

“From Tuesday 27th all the museums and exhibition venues of the Municipality will therefore be able to open to the public, observing the measures for the prevention of contagion set out in the relevant protocols. The programming will follow the course of the activities that were suspended due to the change in the risk band that occurred last March - continued councilor Del Corno -, above all taking up again the thread of dialogue with the public around the exhibition projects linked to the schedule ' The talents of women', in full awareness of the conditions of absolute safety for visitors, already tested effectively in the opening weeks of February. The extension of the opening also on weekends, the result of the work carried out by the coordination of the councilors of the regional capital cities, will now allow us to guarantee full cultural participation for the entire city community".

In fact, the provisions in force allow the reopening of museums and exhibition venues throughout the week in the yellow zone, with reservations required only on Saturdays and public holidays. Therefore, on weekdays, from Tuesday to Friday (Monday is the weekly closing day), all locations will remain open with free entry, compatibly with the quotas imposed by the safety protocols, but with reservations strongly recommended, in order to avoid waiting and guarantee entry into the theaters. The opening hours of all offices are always starting from 10 am, in order to allow a more effective staggering of times in the city.

The civic museums

From Tuesday 27 April it will again be possible to visit or rediscover the permanent collections of all the civic museums: Castello Sforzesco, Civic Aquarium, GAM | Gallery of Modern Art, Palazzo Moriggia | Museum of the Risorgimento, Palazzo Morando | Costume Fashion Image, Archaeological Museum , Boschi Di Stefano House Museum, Francesco Messina Studio Museum.

Instead, it will be a real surprise to visit the Museo del Novecento again, which presents itself to the public with the complete reorganization of the two floors of the Arengario dedicated to Italian art from the 20s to the 50s; and the Natural History Museum, which displays its extraordinary collection of Mineralogy in a new large room, completely refurbished, on the ground floor of the Museum.

The Planetarium will reopen on May 8th, while the MUDEC Permanent Collection remains closed to the public for the reorganization of the museum itinerary, which began last February: an important project, curated by the Museum's Scientific Committee, which will be revealed to the public next September 16th.

The civic museums are open from 10am to 17.30pm continuously (except for the Museo del Novecento which is open from 10am to 19.30pm). Reservations on the website https://museicivicimilano.vivaticket.it

Exhibitions suspended

On Tuesday 27 April, two large exhibitions suspended due to the latest lockdown and dedicated to “The Talents of Women” will reopen at Palazzo Reale: “Divine and Avant-garde. Women in Russian art”, scheduled until September 12, and “Prima, donna. Margaret-Bourke White”, until August 29.

The exhibition dedicated to Luisa Lambri entitled “Self-portrait” resumes at the PAC, which the public was able to admire for only two weeks during the month of February (open until 19 September); just as the exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Bossi's talent and passion for Raphael remained open for two weeks at the Sforzesco Castle (open until June 30). The retrospective on Carla Accardi will once again be open to visitors in the exhibition rooms of the Museo del Novecento until 27 June, while the exhibition dedicated to Franco Guerzoni, set up in the Archives space on the fourth floor of the museum, will be open to the public until 22 August.

The exhibition “Under the sky of Nut. Divine Egypt", set up at the Archaeological Museum, which was also closed (due to its second lockdown) from 1 March, will reopen on 7 May with a partially renewed look: instead of the works loaned by other museums, the itinerary will feature important new works from the Civic Collections, partly restored during the closure period due to COVID. The exhibition will be extended until January 30, 2022.

Finally, at MUDEC, the story on “Qhapaq Ñan. The great Inca road”, set up in the Khaled Assad Hall until 20 June.

The new exhibitions

Some exhibitions already announced and/or anticipated on the web but never visited in person will also open on 27 April.

Finally, "The Ladies of Art" are revealed to the public, women artists who lived between the 500th and 600th centuries and are told in a large exhibition that Palazzo Reale had to close to the public on the same day as the scheduled inauguration, last 2 March; the exhibition will remain open until July 25th.

Set up last month, during the lockdown, from Tuesday you can visit "Green Grand Tour", Federica Galli's exhibition ready to be admired in the rooms of Palazzo Morando|Costume Moda Immagine until June 27th.

At the Aquarium, Barbara Pietrasanta's exhibition entitled "Shipwrecked and Shipwrecked", which also closed just before its inauguration scheduled for March 5th; at the Messina Museum a new exhibition, entitled "Decade", will inhabit the spaces of the Studio until 2 June, while Casa della Memoria dedicates an exhibition-collection of Italian newspapers from the spring of '25 to the celebration of 45 April.

Scheduled exhibitions

Pandemic situation permitting, various exhibition projects will gradually materialize in the coming weeks and will be offered to the public during the summer season.

From Sunday 1st May, the two exhibitions set up for some time in the exhibition spaces of the MUDEC | Museum of Cultures will be able to be visited: the photography dedicated to “Tina Modotti. Women, Mexico and Freedom” (will close on November 7) and the project “Robot. The Human Projet” (until August 1st).

The Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano dedicates a monographic exhibition to Cesare Peverelli (1922-2000), an important figure in the Milanese artistic scene after the Second World War (from 18 May to 4 July).

The contemporary will be the protagonist at the GAM|Galleria d'Arte Moderna with the new exhibition created in collaboration with the Furla Foundation which will open to the public on May 26th: “Misfits” is the title of Nairy Baghramian's solo exhibition, the first in Italy, which will the internal and external spaces of the Villa Reale until 26 September.

On July 20th the great exhibition on Renaissance sculpture “The body and the soul. From Donatello to Michelangelo", a Castello Sforzesco-Le Louvre co-production curated by the scientific staff of the two great museums which has already produced the Parisian version of the exhibition, which opened at the Louvre on 10 October and unfortunately, despite the great critical success of the project, remained open to the public for only 10 days due to the forced closure of places of culture in France.

On 11 June, a tribute exhibition dedicated to the great Milanese poet Carlo Porta will open at the Castle, in the fascinating Sala del Tesoro: “El sur Carlo milanes”, this is the title of the exhibition, is part of the initiatives of the National Committee for the celebrations of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Porta (1821-2021), and will be open to visitors until 25 July. The photographic exhibition "Io sono/I am", dedicated to the theme of migration, will open on June 30th at the “Khaled al-Asaad” Space of Cultures at MUDEC (until August 1st).

Finally, a major retrospective of Mario Sironi will be set up at the Museo del Novecento starting from 23 July and until 31 March 2022.

Detailed information and timetables on the websites of the museums and exhibition venues.