The Education Department
What is our role?
We believe that a museum is a place for cultural growth, discovery, debate, integration and social inclusion. We see it as a place that is open to the city and the world. We want it to be a place of fun and joy, a place for falling in love.
Everyone is entitled to their cultural heritage, but it is a right that needs to be won by demolishing all the visible and invistible barriers standing in its way.
Article 9 in the Italian Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights both proclaim that right, and so we in the Education Department work to open up the museum’s doors, to make it accessible to the largest possible number of people.
What do we do?
We offer-for adults, children, groups, individuals and families-visits, workshops and tools to discover the museum independently.
We offer visits and workshops aimed at schools of all levels and a refresher course for teachers.
We always look for new ways to put the visitor at the center of the museum and open the museum to the world!
Who are we?
The educational services of the Pinacoteca di Brera consist of three different entities working in synergy:
- the Internal Educational Department
- the Civita Exhibitions and Museums.
- the Educational Section of the Friends of Brera Association

Pinacoteca di Brera Education Department
The staff of Internal Educational Department works to enhance the museum as an educational environment with its own specific characteristics and to make it accessible to the widest possible number of people.
The team, composed of qualified internal staff of the Pinacoteca di Brera:
– strives to ensure that the educational activities offered by the museum are all an expression of the Brera philosophy and encourage the comparison of different points of view when faced with works of art;
– organizes free workshops and tours, included in the price of the entrance ticket, aimed at adults, children and families;
– creates tools and materials, also in collaboration with external professionals, to enable visitors to discover and explore the works of the Art Gallery in complete autonomy, trying to meet the most varied needs;
– is committed to ensuring that the educational activities proposed by the museum are all an expression of the Brera philosophy and encourage the comparison of different points of view in front of works of art.
The Educational Section of the Friends of Brera Association.
The Associazione Amici di Brera e dei Musei Milanesi, founded in 1926 to support the Pinacoteca di Brera and to familiarise the public with its art heritage, offers tours for many different kinds of audiences.
FOR SCHOOLS:
• KINDERGARTEN: programmes involving a guided tour of the Pinacoteca to discover a “museum” and what it means, followed by in-depth exploration of the issues addressed in the tour in a purpose-built workshop.
• PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL: a guided tour including the distribution of educational material to each student reflecting the itinerary chosen by the teacher.
• SENIOR SCHOOLS AND HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES: in addition to boosting students’ awareness of, and familiarity with, their cultural heritage, tours offer them tools for exploring and understanding the many different aspects of the phenomenon called “art”.
• REFRESHER COURSE ENTITLED “THE MUSEUM, A RESOURCE FOR SCHOOLS”: the Associazione has been holding a refresher course for lower and upper secondary school teachers for the past 17 years. The course is officially recognised by the Regional Education Office. The course and the material handed out during it are completely free of charge and the lessons are held by experts in art history and in education.
FOR ADULTS
Guided tours of Brera in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish. Tours can focus on the more important masterpieces or explore a limited number of specifically requested works in greater depth.
Civita Mostre e Musei
Civita Mostre e Musei offers organized audiences and individual visitors the opportunity to visit the Pinacoteca with engaging and diverse thematic guided tours.
The collection can be explored in a single appointment, focusing on the masterpieces or being guided by a particular thematic slant, or in multiple encounters analyzing from time to time the different facets of a rich historical and artistic heritage.
FOR ORGANIZED GROUPS: cultural associations, companies, organized tourists or groups of friends will be able to choose the guided tour that suits them among those in the Civita offer and organize their own visit for the preferred day and time, as well as request it for their own events during extraordinary hours.
FOR SCHOOLS: Classes of all levels will find in the Civita educational offer in-depth interdisciplinary paths that aim to analyze multiple aspects of the collection by connecting to national curricula and encouraging the active participation of students, also with the use of different supporting materials. By leveraging fun, sensory, and manual skills, the visit will be a stimulus for creativity and interaction with others.
While waiting to return to educational outings, schools can also book online meetings preparatory to the museum visit.
FOR INDIVIDUAL VISITORS: for individual visitors, adults, young people and families with children, it will be possible to participate in guided tours and activities by signing up for dedicated appointments that will be scheduled monthly. They will be an opportunity to visit the collection in a way that is always new and stimulating, and to enjoy a cultural experience together.
Internal Educational Department
Supervisor
Sofia Incarbone
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Secretary
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Educational Division Friends of Brera Association
For information and reservations:
tel. +39 02 867354 (da lunedì a venerdì 9.30-18.30)
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www.amicidibrera.org
Civita Mostre e Musei
For information:
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www.civita.it
For reservations:
tel. +39 02 72105141
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