Here are the main activities that the museum always proposes to families visiting the Brera Art Gallery.
These are all activities that can be done in the museum, many can also be done at home by downloading the materials from the website.
A visit to the museum always goes booked at or by calling 02 72105 141 (Monday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.) or by sending an e-mail to pinacotecadibrera@ operalaboratori.comTicket price:
- full price: € 15.00
- families*: € 10 per adult
*'Families' means 1 or 2 adults + max. 5 minors, not necessarily related. - under 18 years of age (children under 12 must be accompanied): FREE
- EU citizens aged 18 to 25: € 2*.
*The reduction also applies to citizens of Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
DEDICATED CAPTIONS
- LARGE AND SMALL DIDASCALIE IN BRERA AND DIDASCALIE CORNICI (To be read and listened to)
In the picture gallery you will find many types of captions under paintings. Look for the ones designed for families, marked with these symbols
Find out more - AUDIO GUIDE FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN BRERA ON IZITRAVEL
If you want, you can listen to the captions recited by our visitors
Find out more - OLFACTORY CAPTIONS AND TEXTILE CAPTIONS
You will find them below the paintings and they are part of the accessibility route offered by Brera to all visitors.
DRAWING SECTION
- BRERA DRAWING BENCH (for drawing in the museum)
A number of Brera Drawing benches, complete with sheets and pencils, are available in the rooms, inviting visitors to freely copy or interpret the museum's masterpieces.
Find out more - THE DRAWING KIT (free rental) OR BUILD YOUR OWN DRAWING KIT (for drawing in the museum)
The Pinacoteca di Brera offers a drawing kit for use during the visit. You can rent it free of charge at the Pinacoteca's info point.
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If you want one of your own, try building it. Here are some tips on how to do it.
Below are activities to go with the drawing kit. To be printed out at home or collected from the museum info point.
- THE CHALLENGE (game/drawing)
Ready to fulfil the most bizarre requests with drawing? Put yourself to the test with the Art Gallery subjects we have chosen for you. - GRAND TOUR (game/drawing)
A tool that, inspired by the eighteenth-century Grand Tour notebooks, allows you to fix your memories in black and white after observing the works. - FINISH IT! (game/drawing)
An invitation to use your imagination by completing the missing part of the paintings or to copy what is missing from the great artists of the past. - IN THE SKY THERE IS... (game/drawing)
Draw the sky that strikes you most or invent a new one: in the drawn or painted sky there is everything you want
Find out more - COLORBOOK (game/drawing)
Download the colouring books, have fun with the colours and then post your interpretations of princesses, ladies and knights.
Download the books
GAME SECTION
- PIERA, THE MUSEUM IN A SUITCASE
A new way for a family visit thanks to Piera, the suitcase of the Brera Art Gallery, distributed at the museum's info point: special objects, tools and activity suggestions invite the family group to observe, discover and play together.
Find out more - THE MODEL OF THE TEMPLE OF RAPHAEL (home game)
The Educational Services of the Pinacoteca di Brera illustrate step by step how to build a cardboard model of Raphael's temple, painted in his Wedding of the Virgin. - THE DOMAIN OF ANIMALS (game path)
Tails, paws, whiskers sprout in the Pinacoteca: how many animals does Brera have! Who let them into the paintings? And why? Try to find one, then another and another: if you find them all, you will complete your animal domino.
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ROUTES
- ART PATH FAMILY GARDEN
Nature has always been a privileged source of inspiration for artists, each of whom has interpreted it according to their own culture and sensitivity. - COLOURS FROM AFAR
A journey to discover some of the most precious colours used by painters. Download or print the card and start an exotic and colourful journey. Then have fun making the missing colours come back in the cards.
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