There are 7 exhibitions on in Milan worth the trip. I checked the dates, the venues and the opening hours one by one, on the museums’ own pages.
Last checked: 21 September 2026
29 January to 9 November 2026
Three site-specific installations in the Cisterna space, built for that environment: a suspended web, a map and a grid, the recurring vocabulary Hatoum has used for years on precariousness and borders. A physical show meant to be walked through, open until November.
9 October 2026 to 24 January 2027
The largest exhibition ever held in Italy on Francis Picabia: more than a hundred and seventy works and documents. He passed through Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Dada without settling in any, and night runs through it as a metaphor for desire and reinvention.
29 September 2026 to 31 January 2027
The first major Italian exhibition on the Brueghel dynasty: more than eighty paintings, drawings and prints. Snowy landscapes, storms, still lifes, peasant life and battles show how the genres of modern painting were born.
24 September 2026 to 31 January 2027
More than two hundred paintings, drawings, photographs, garments and jewels on Salvador Dalí’s relationship with fashion, from his work with Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s onwards. Many pieces come from the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí.
26 September 2026 to 7 February 2027
Eighty years of women’s rights in Italy told through photographs from major archives: the first vote on 2 June 1946, the rice weeders, the factory workers of the boom, feminism, the referendums on divorce and abortion. Women artists of today close it.
6 October 2026 to 14 February 2027
The Amici di Brera association turns a hundred, and the Pinacoteca shows what it has donated or helped to buy since 1926: paintings, sculptures, drawings and documents, spread between the Brera galleries and Palazzo Citterio.
8 October 2026 to 21 February 2027
About a hundred works in eight sections on Matisse and the non-European cultures he met through travel and study: the “Océanie” diptych, the “Jazz” plates, drawings for the Vence chapel and unpublished photographs he took in Morocco.
One exhibition that has not opened yet, but whose dates are already announced.
5 November 2026 to 1 March 2027
Salvatore Settis and Anna Anguissola trace the exchanges between the Mediterranean, East Africa and Asia from 600 BC to around AD 900, one object at a time. The display, in the Podium space, is designed by Rem Koolhaas and AMO/OMA.
It is always these 6, and I check them one by one. When a venue has nothing on I say so, with the date I checked: it is something you would otherwise have to look up museum by museum.
| Venue | Status |
|---|---|
| Fondazione Prada | exhibition on |
| Gallerie d'Italia | exhibition on |
| MUDEC - Museo delle Culture | exhibition on |
| Palazzo Reale | exhibition on |
| Pinacoteca di Brera | exhibition on |
| Triennale Milano | programme not yet checked |
Dates and prices change, and this page may not reflect the latest updates: before you travel, always check the museum’s own page, linked under each exhibition, which is the most reliable source.