Fondazione Bracco, the Bracco Foundation, has entered into a partnership with the Municipality of Milan to promote the city’s historical, artistic, and civic heritage, and make it more accessible to residents and visitors alike.
Type: Arts
Fondazione Bracco is one of the main sponsors of Pavia 1525: The arts in the Renaissance and the battle tapestries,” an exhibition being staged at the Civic Museums of Castello Visconteo in Pavia on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Pavia. The exhibition, which celebrates the city’s role as a crossroads of arts, ideas and culture in the Renaissance, is also a way of reinforcing the bonds between Pavia and the Region of Lombardy in which it lies, and generally promoting Italy’s national cultural heritage.
From September 23, 2025 to January 11, 2026, Palazzo Reale presents “Appiani. Neoclassicism in Milan”, a major exhibition sponsored by Bracco Foundation. The exhibition is dedicated to the painter who captured the spirit of the Enlightenment and the Napoleonic Era, giving shape to an elegant, modern and European Milan.
The exhibition “Art from Inside. Masterpieces unveiled between art and science” is the result of a project by the Bracco Foundation, born from a long journey of research, study, and collaboration grounded in a firm conviction: the technologies used to treat the human body can also become valuable tools for “caring for” works of art, revealing their hidden essence and contributing significantly to their restoration, preservation, and appreciation.
On 14–15 June 2025, the second edition of Il Diritto di Suonare [The Right to Play] takes place in Milan. The Right to Play, which is the first festival in the country dedicated to overcoming gender stereotypes in classical music, is promoted by the Classical Rights Association and supported by the Bracco Foundation.
From 28 May to 25 June 2025, every Wednesday at 7pm, the 19th-century courtyard of the SIAM building in Milan, home to the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, opens to the public to host “Note d’incontro”, a series of five events introduced by Maestro Fabio Sartorelli. Combining music, words, and reflection, the series is promoted by the Accademia with the support of Fondazione Bracco as Main Partner.
The Bracco Group, Official Gold Sponsor of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, is staging several major Expo events on themes ranging from art to medicine of the future as it showcases Italian excellence, strengthens cultural links between Italy and Japan, and emphasizes the central importance of scientific innovation and research.
The photographic exhibition “Milan through the eyes of Leonardo” celebrates the bond between Milan and Leonardo da Vinci, who arrived in the Lombard capital in 1483 from the Medici court in Florence.
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum of Milan along with its scientific partner, the Bracco Foundation, is sponsoring a unique “live” event: the restoration of Piero del Pollaiolo’s Portrait of a Young Woman, one of the museum’s most beloved masterpieces.
“Mind the STEM Gap – Together” is an exhibition of works produced by 150 students of both sexes participating in the “Mind the STEM Gap” Manifesto, an initiative run by Fondazione Bracco to encourage girls and women to transcend sexist stereotypes by entering and prospering in the world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).