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Sforza Castle, Milan, Italy

Sforza Castle (Italian: Castello Sforzesco) is in Milan, northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification. Later renovated and enlarged, in the 16th and 17th centuries it was one of the largest citadels in Europe. Extensively…

Sforza Castle, Milan, Italy

Museums of Decorative Art, Sforza Castle

Museums of Decorative Art, born in the nineteenth century as a repository of objects with a didactic function and as places that would ensure craftsmen and artists would have access to models for their training, today are aimed at a wider audience, which is undifferentiated both in terms of geographical…

Museums of Decorative Art, Sforza Castle

Museum of Musical Instruments, Sforza Castle

The Museum of Musical Instruments of Milan exhibits over 700 musical instruments from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries with particular attention to Lombard instruments. The collection contains plucked instruments, Lombard and Cremonese violins, hunting horns, numerous wood instruments (e.g. flutes, oboes, clarinets, English horns), bassoons, pianos and some ancient organs.…

Museum of Musical Instruments, Sforza Castle

Museum of Ancient Art, Sforza Castle

The Museum of Ancient Art is an art museum in the Castello Sforzesco of Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has a large collection of sculptures from the late antiquity, Mediaeval and Renaissance periods. The various rooms of the museum house an armory, a tapestry room, some funerary monuments,…

Museum of Ancient Art, Sforza Castle

Pinacoteca, Sforza Castle

The Sforza Castle Pinacoteca is an art gallery in the complex of the Sforza Castle Museums in Milan, northern Italy. Pinacoteca gallery display a rich collection of paintings, including works by Filippo Lippi, Antonello da Messina, Andrea Mantegna, Canaletto, Correggio, Tiepolo History Inaugurated in 1878, gallery displays over 230 artworks,…

Pinacoteca, Sforza Castle

Antique Furniture & Wooden Sculpture Museum, Sforza Castle

The Antique Furnishings & Wooden Sculpture Museum of Milan is located on the first floor of the Sforza Castle ducal courtyard and it is part of the Sforza Castle’s Civic Museum complex. The itinerary is chronologically arranged from the 14th century to the modern times with a particular attention for…

Antique Furniture & Wooden Sculpture Museum, Sforza Castle

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