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January 5, 2020 will still be "Sunday at the Museum", all the civic museums are open and free except Castello Sforzesco and GAM (entrance reduced to 5 euros)

Milan, 22 December 2019 – Extraordinary openings for the civic museums and exhibition venues of the Municipality of Milan during the upcoming holidays: a rich and varied proposal that responds to an increasingly large audience attentive to the quality and novelty of Milan's cultural offering. 

EXHIBITIONS

The exhibitions set up in the exhibition venues of the Municipality of Milan (Palazzo Reale, PAC | Pavilion of Contemporary Art and MuDeC | Museum of Cultures) will remain open every day, up to and including 6 January, with the following times:
• Tuesday 24 December: from 9.30 to 14.30 the exhibitions of Palazzo Reale and the PAC, from 9.30 to 14.00 those of the MuDeC
• Wednesday 25 December: from 14.30pm to 18.30pm the Palazzo Reale and PAC exhibitions, from 14.30pm to 19.30pm the MuDeC exhibitions;
• Thursday 26 December: all exhibitions (Palazzo Reale, PAC and MuDeC) with the usual time;
• Monday 30 December: from 14.30pm to 19.30pm the exhibitions at Palazzo Reale and MuDeC;
• Tuesday 31 December: from 9.30 to 14.30 the exhibitions at Palazzo Reale and the PAC, from 9.30 to 14.00 the MuDeC exhibitions; 
• Wednesday 1 January: from 14.30pm to 19.30pm all exhibitions (Palazzo Reale, PAC and MuDeC);
• Monday 6 January: all exhibitions (Palazzo Reale, PAC), closing at 19.30 pm.

The MuDeC hosts "Impressions of the East" in its spaces, an original exhibition that tells the story of Japanese art in relation to its influences on European culture and artists. At Palazzo Reale the collection of masterpieces from the Guggenheim Museum in New York offers an overview of superstar artists from Van Gogh to Picasso; the great retrospective of Giorgio de Chirico retraces his entire artistic life thanks to international loans and an important body of works on display; Letizia Battaglia's powerful black and white shows in images a cross-section of our truest history; finally, the Hall of Caryatids offers the spectacle of a scenographic display of the works of Emilio Vedova. The various declinations of contemporaneity of the Australian continent are on display at the PAC, in a collective exhibition ("Stories from the Antipodes") which constitutes the largest survey of contemporary Australian art ever held outside the continent.

CIVIC MUSEUMS (AND RELATED EXHIBITIONS)

Below are the openings of the civic museums (Museum of the Twentieth Century, GAM | Gallery of Modern Art, Museums of the Sforzesco Castle, Archaeological Museum. Palazzo Moriggia | Museum of the Risorgimento, Palazzo Morando | Costume Fashion Image, MuDeC | Permanent Collection, House Museum Boschi Di Stefano, Studio Museo Francesco Messina) and the exhibitions set up in the museum spaces. 

The MuDeC Permanent Collection will be open on Wednesday 25 December and Wednesday 1 January (from 14.30pm to 19.30pm), while the other buildings will remain closed.
Regular opening of the museums on Thursday 26 December.
Monday 6 January, weekly closing of the museums with the exception of the Museo del Novecento (open from 14.30pm to 19.30pm) and MuDeC (from 9.30am to 19.30pm).

In addition to its collections, the Castello Sforzesco offers the "Leonardo never seen" itinerary which still allows you to visit - until 19 April, when the restoration site will reopen - the Leonardesque Sala delle Asse with the multimedia installation "Sotto l' shadow of the Moro" and "Leonardo in Milan", as well as the refined dossier exhibition "Intorno a Leonardo". In the spaces dedicated to temporary exhibitions, the Museo del Novecento leads the visitor to discover an extraordinary artist like Adriana Bisi Fabbri and the work of one of the protagonists of the Italian twentieth century, Filippo De Pisis.
In the rooms of Palazzo Morando the story unfolds through images, objects and documents of the "Milan of the 60s", from the post-war boom to the dark days of Piazza Fontana, which close an era of incredible enthusiasm and great vitality of our city. The elegant exhibition dedicated to Canova's "Ideal Faces" can be admired on the ground floor of the GAM, while at the Studio Museo Francesco Messina there is a spectacular and unprecedented installation of "shoulder machines", a UNESCO intangible heritage, protagonists of popular festivals and processions throughout Italy.

Finally, January 5, 2020 will once again be "Sunday at the Museum": all the civic museums will be open and can be visited for free, except the Sforzesco Castle and the GAM. In fact, at the Sforzesco Castle the entrance ticket (reduced to 5 euros) also includes a visit to the "Leonardo never seen" initiatives, while at the GAM, in addition to the permanent collection, the ticket (reduced to 5 euros) also allows you to visit the exhibition "Canova. The ideal faces".