Art museum in Milan

Prada's contemporary art museum featuring a nine-floor tower where each level offers distinct avant-garde exhibitions. Don't miss Bar Luce, the on-site café designed by Wes Anderson that feels like stepping into one of his films.

Polished galleries inside a grand palazzo. Italian art presented with space to breathe—best enjoyed at an unhurried pace.

Right on Piazza Duomo in a fascist-era palace with a Guggenheim-wannabe spiral ramp. This is where Milan keeps its 20th-century hits - starting with a massive socialist painting of striking workers and ending with Fontana's slashed canvases. The Futurist rooms are the real showstopper (Boccioni's bronze guy looks like he's about to sprint off the pedestal). Top floor has a neon-lit Fontana room with killer Duomo views - basically Instagram gold. There's a decent bistro up there too if you need an Aperol break.

This 18th-century palazzo holds Italy's answer to the Louvre - except smaller, quieter, and honestly more enjoyable. The collection started when Napoleon raided churches across northern Italy and needed somewhere to stash the art. Now it's 38 rooms of heavy-hitters: Mantegna's dead Christ, Caravaggio being moody, and that kiss painting that's on every Italian chocolate box. Glass restoration labs let you watch paintings get their facelifts. Pro tip: the tiny botanical garden behind the museum is perfect for decompressing after all that Renaissance drama.