Sforza Castle - The Civic Museums

The Civic Museums

The Castello complex includes some museums:

• The Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, with an art collection which includes Andrea Mantegna's Trivulzio Madonna and masterpieces by Canaletto, Tiepolo, Vincenzo Foppa, Tiziano Vecellio and Tintoretto.
• The Museum of Ancient Art which includes Michelangelo's last sculpture (the Rondanini Pietà), the armory, the tapestry room and some funerary monuments.
• The Museum of Musical Instruments.
• The Egyptian Museum.
• The Prehistoric collections of the Archaeological Museum of Milan.
• The Applied Arts Collection.
• The Antique Furniture & Wooden Sculpture Museum.
• The Achille Bertarelli Print Collection.

The Trivulziana Library holds Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Trivulzianus' manuscript. Also in 2012 new paintings attributable to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio have been discovered at the castle.