Europe travel: Brera Modern art museum will open in Milan after 52 years of delays

Europe travel: Brera Modern art museum will open in Milan after 52 years of delays

The ‘hidden’ country you couldn’t visit before 1974

His predecessor, British Canadian historian James Bradburne who had pushed to finish the Modern, had completed two four-year terms and was ineligible to continue.

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The new museum is set to officially open on December 7. (iStock)

The Brera, established in 1809, contains masterpieces by Canova, Caravaggio, Raphael and Hayez. The new museum in the nearby Palazzo Citterio has already drawn 30,000 visitors over three weeks for a temporary exhibition. Concerts are planned in the outdoor garden this summer.

The Brera, with the addition of the Modern, is expected to reach 500,000 visitors this year, up from 466,709 last year and in continual increase from pre-pandemic highs of around 410,000.

– Reporting by AP.

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