Civico Museo di Storia Naturale
Civico Museo di Storia Naturale
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10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
About
This natural history museum is the oldest civic museum in Milan. Its six sections offer a look at everything from the history of humankind to the study of paleontology (dinosaurs, anyone?) to zoology.
Duration: More than 3 hours
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Neighborhood: Centro Storico
The pulsating core of Milan is in Centro. Duomo Square is enclosed by the gothic cathedral, the historic icon of Milan. However, shopping is what draws most crowds to this area. The classy and versatile Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II with luxury boutiques and high quality restaurants will turn any shopping or lunch expedition into a royal experience. Head to the rooftop of the flagship La Rinascente to enjoy the view of the animated square with a panorama of the Duomo. The Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is the street for high-end shopping. Brands of all kinds and street artists attract the attention of all visitors; while at Via Santa Radegonda 16, Luini Panzerotti is a much appreciated street food shop providing unimaginable culinary experiences. If shopping takes its toll on you, consider visiting Castello Sforzesco, a 15th century castle housing several museums. Those looking to relax can go to Parco Sempione, where nature provides respite from the energy of this dynamic and international city.
How to get there
- Palestro • 3 min walk
- Porta Venezia • 4 min walk
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- Milano76Milan, Italy528 contributionsPros & Cons... and tourists not welcome!The museum has pros and cons. It is generally split into two main levels. The level with the dinosaurs is very dated. Really poor. However, the level with the animal dioramas is very impressive and well put together. However, note the main negative point to this museum is that they dont cater for tourists!! Unfortunately, practically all the information is only in Italian! Sometimes the "summary" of an exhibit can be found in English also, but then all the other information about that exhibit is in italian only. (Also they just added a brand new human evolution exhibit and even this is 100% italian, with zero English or any other language options!!.) This is probably the only significant museum in a major city that I have seen that don't have other language options for tourists / non active speakers.Visited March 2024Traveled with familyWritten March 31, 2024
- Brun066Florence, Italy13,939 contributionsA museum that stands out compared to the largest of its kind in Europe.Rarely, and only in the major European metropolises and in some of the extra-European ones, have I seen a natural science museum as captivating as the one in Milan. I have been visiting it for decades, since I was a child, then I brought my children, then my grandchildren, and I have always seen it improve. It doesn't boast phantasmagorical special effects, but serious and competent information, accompanied by spectacular iconographic apparatus (photos, footages, taxidermy reproductions, dioramas...). The mineralogical section is magical, the paleontological and paleoanthropological ones are fascinating, the dioramas of the greatest natural parks in the world are engaging. The oldest sections of the museum, the taxidermy ones (i.e. stuffed animals) have also been renovated in recent years, so they don't present that retro appearance that they risk having: this is first and foremost a museum of natural sciences, and not of history of these sciences. Another meritorious aspect of the museum is that it appears to carry out an intense educational activity with schools. Last but not least: the moderate cost of the entrance ticket: 5 euros, which is further reduced for elderly people and zero for children.Visited March 2024Traveled with familyWritten March 31, 2024
- DuequalunqueLombardy, Italy7,581 contributionsIndispensable for adults and children.After many years we managed to visit this museum. He taught a lot to the adults but also to the 6 year old boy who was with us. At the end, tired but satisfied, we felt privileged to have had this experience. The ground floor, first and second floors require a visit lasting a minimum of 1 and a half hours, we spent 2 and a half and in the end we even went quickly. Advised.Visited April 2024Traveled with familyWritten April 28, 2024
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Maria C
67 contributions
Oct 2023 • Family
The splendid building on Corso Venezia houses a rather old-fashioned museum, which does not make you want to stay long enough to visit it with children: the services are not great and there is no refreshment point at all. Nonetheless, the large exhibition spaces and the settings of the animals in their respective natural habitats manage to excite adults and children alike. A beautiful reality that should certainly be improved.

Written October 15, 2023
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Laura C
23 contributions
Jan 2024 • Family
We were at the Epiphany in this museum which really amazed us: at the beginning there were many insects cataloged and exhibited in an exemplary way, capable of interesting even us who are certainly not fans of insects. Then minerals which are also very beautiful and very well exposed. In my opinion, the dinosaur and animal sections are truly unmissable, I had never seen such a beautiful and realistic museum, it felt like being in the film "Night at the Museum". Definitely top for families with children, but also for adults who are passionate about nature and animals.

Written January 6, 2024
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John C
23 contributions
Oct 2022
£5 for an adult and £3 for a teenager, this is money well spent.
An excellent museum full of fossils, dinosaurs and incredibly well- p[resented animals (all dead obviously)
Seriously, the standard of presentation and taxidermy was the best I have ever seen.
A 2-hour stay.
An excellent museum full of fossils, dinosaurs and incredibly well- p[resented animals (all dead obviously)
Seriously, the standard of presentation and taxidermy was the best I have ever seen.
A 2-hour stay.
Written October 25, 2022
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Mattia P
6 contributions
Jul 2024 • Family
Museum all in all interesting, but absolutely not in line with today's standards. Let's start from the fact that the staff was on strike... Sunday in July with concert in the evening by Taylor Swift, I leave you only to imagine the number of foreign tourists who wanted to enter, and were trying to find information... you could book exclusively on vivatiket with a fairly complicated process. Not only that, of course in addition to being clearly all very dated there is no bar, a distributor or a fountain to drink water, which with the heat of these days is not pleasant, not only, the few assistants present, absolutely piqued and uncooperative, to the request we reply that inside a museum you can not drink... and nothing... after visiting (and I have also drunk) museums all over the world I discover this novelty... in museums you have to die of thirst with 35 degrees and totally ineffective air conditioning... forget the broken windows, 70s signs, embarrassing toilet cleaning....
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Written July 15, 2024
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Marieka86
United Kingdom252 contributions
Jan 2020
Think there were some maintenance works going on on the ground floor that made the order/sections currently difficult to follow. As this floor covers things like evolution, this was particularly disconcerting. Upstairs there were some very impressive dioramas of nature scenes from different habitats all around the world that raised the quality of the whole museum. So, although not the biggest, most impressive natural history museum, it's a fair spot to take children for an hour or two, with the added convenience of being just in the corner of the park!
Written February 4, 2020
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Alessandro F
Milan, Italy32,985 contributions
Sep 2020
Beautiful palace inside the Montanelli Park, the neoclassical palace was built in 1838 to collect the donation of Giuseppe de Cristoforis (1803-1837) a naturalist and collector .
Inside the museum you can see five permanent sections: Mineralogy, Paleontology, Anthropology, Invertebrated Zoology and Vertebrate Zoology .
The museum offers to you the largest Italian collection of dioramas , a three-dimensional full size or miniature model of life during centuries
Inside the museum you can see five permanent sections: Mineralogy, Paleontology, Anthropology, Invertebrated Zoology and Vertebrate Zoology .
The museum offers to you the largest Italian collection of dioramas , a three-dimensional full size or miniature model of life during centuries
Written September 29, 2020
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AMohsen
Port Said, Egypt687 contributions
Feb 2020
I noticed this museum through tripadvisor.com coincidentally while we were in Milan, and it was extremely impressive to my child who is obsessed with dinosaurs, fossils, nature, and animals. It was a good price ticket, and the animals were perfectly sculptured, the museum has a broad spectrum of sections and everything about nature and humanity. Only one observation is that many sections have no translated illustrative texts and labels, where they were in only the Italian language.
Written May 18, 2020
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lauramillertexas
Saint Louis, MO37 contributions
Jan 2016
We needed a rainy day activity to entertain two young children. This museum is definitely geared towards adults and not kids. Our 3-year-old lasted about an hour. Just wish it would have been more kid friendly.
Written January 3, 2016
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Michael Adamidis 🇬🇷
Kastoria, Greece6,617 contributions
Sep 2018 • Friends
near to porta venezia and close to buenos aires street.is the civil museum of natural history .good to go with kids or for bigger kids..it is a nice spot of the town of milano.worths the visit.
Written September 12, 2018
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Boris B
Belgrade, Serbia2,416 contributions
Feb 2017 • Family
Although this museum is not as large as some similar ones in Europe (London, Vienna), it has magnificent exhibits and in some points from my point of view it is even better than the others. Besides huge collection of stuffed animals and fossils, it has large number of real size life scenes (dioramas).
The entrance fee is 5 eur for adults (children go in free of charge). Please have in mind that Museum Card costs 12 eur and gives you 72 hour pass to all Civic museums, including this one, Castello Sforzesco, Costume gallery, Modern art gallery, Archaeological museum.
The entrance fee is 5 eur for adults (children go in free of charge). Please have in mind that Museum Card costs 12 eur and gives you 72 hour pass to all Civic museums, including this one, Castello Sforzesco, Costume gallery, Modern art gallery, Archaeological museum.
Written March 22, 2017
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Buongiorno, ho letto fra le risposte che i cani non possono entrare, ma è datato 2017... È ancora così? Perché su un altro sito dedicato a portare i cani in vacanza, c'era scritto che l'ingresso era consentito. Grazie.
Written August 3, 2024
Conoscete un bar vicino al museo per organizzare una merenda ai bambini dopo festa al museo grazie
Written January 10, 2023
Giorgos G
Thessaloniki, Greece
few questions as we will have a couple of hours in Milano before taking our train and seems ideal to spend them there with the children.
a) Does the museum has a facility to leave our luggage at the lobby (classic cabin lagguages) ?
b) how easy is to find a taxi on the nearby taxi stations on a friday morning to take us shortly back to the station ?
thank you
Written April 27, 2022
karinadidonato
Cavenago di Brianza, Italy
Buonasera, domenica 1 febbraio 2021 sarete aperti? Grazie
Written January 28, 2021
Fabio Rovazzi
Italy
Ci sono il T-rex, il Triceratopo, il Velociraptor e lo Stegosauro😐🤔?
Written February 15, 2020
C'è un deposito zaini / bagagli?
Written February 11, 2020
Buongiorno, ho visto dalle recensioni che la visita al museo può durare parecchie ore. Vi chiedo se entrando verso le 11,00, è possibile uscire verso le13,00 per pranzare e poi rientrare per continuare la visita? Grazie
Written October 22, 2019
La durata della visita di un museo dipende dall’interesse personale-se una persona legge tutto ci sta un giorno intero, se no anche mezz’ora. Per poter rientrare dopo pranzo deve chiedere in biglietteria
Written October 22, 2019
Da due giorni che provo a chiamare il museo per capire se la domenica 1 settembre è aperto. Il telefono è fuori uso. Le persone che hanno visitato il museo ad agosto mi sanno dire se chiudeva per ferie? Grazie
Written August 30, 2019
Buongiorno, mi pare molto strano sia chiuso
Written August 31, 2019
Open on Sunday, 9 am-5:30 pm.. they are closed on Mondays
Written December 28, 2018
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