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Leonardo3 Museum
Leonardo sketched these machines in his notebooks, and here they've been built, many of them for you to work with your own hands.
Milan's Leonardo3 Museum, inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, builds Leonardo da Vinci's machines from the drawings in his codices: more than 200 interactive 3D reconstructions, from a mechanical lion to the Flying Machine of Milan. It also rebuilds the refectory of the Last Supper as it was in his day, it opens every day but Christmas Day, and four of the passes we sell include entry.
Before you go
- Time inside60 min
- OpenEvery day
TipThe museum itself says to allow at least an hour, and it has a free cloakroom plus lockers for 2 euros.
Leonardo’s machines, built from his notebooks, at Leonardo3
A mechanical lion, a mechanical eagle and the Flying Machine of Milan have all been built at Leonardo3, the museum inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Its makers, the Leonardo3 research centre, study Leonardo da Vinci’s codices, the notebooks he filled with drawings and notes, and turn the pages into machines. One of them is a paddle boat you can take a “ride” in. The museum counts more than 200 interactive 3D reconstructions, and plenty of them are there to be handled.
What you won’t find is an original painting or drawing by Leonardo: everything here is a model, a digital restoration or a reconstruction.
Booking Leonardo3: a dated ticket, and an audio guide in eight languages
A Leonardo3 ticket is €16 for adults. Students from 18 to 25 and over-65s pay €12, there’s a youth ticket at €10 (the museum’s youth rate covers ages 6 to 18), and children up to 5 go in free. You pick a date, and you can cancel up to 24 hours before.
If you’d like someone talking you through the machines, add the audio guide when you book. It comes in eight languages, English among them.
The Leonardo3 machines, and the Last Supper’s refectory
The museum opened on Piazza della Scala in 2013, and the route moves through engineering, mechanics, flight and anatomy, with working models, digital reconstructions and multimedia installations side by side.
Beyond the lion, the eagle and the flying machine, look for the rapid-fire crossbow, the steam cannon, the Great Continuous Organ, the Great Kite and the Time Regulator. His paintings are shown as digital restorations, and the museum rebuilds the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie as it looked in his time, Last Supper included. The painting itself is still in Santa Maria delle Grazie, and the Last Supper is a separate visit.
The city’s science museum also has galleries of Leonardo models, set among submarines, trains and moon rocks. Leonardo3 gives him a whole museum to himself, and you can work many of the machines yourself.
Four Milan passes that include Leonardo3
On the two YesMilano passes Leonardo3 is one of the 14 premium activities: the Standard lets you pick one, the All-Inclusive takes them all.
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YesMilano City Pass Standard
The Standard's one premium pick, on a museum open every day, so it fits any of your three days
from €60
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YesMilano City Pass All-Inclusive
All 14 premium activities, from Leonardo3 to the Ambrosiana and the Scala museum
from €90
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The Milan Pass
Entry included
from €99
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Milan City Card
A package of the Duomo cathedral entry, Leonardo3, a transport card and an audio-guide app
from €48
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A YesMilano voucher isn’t fast-track: you still show it at the ticket desk. Milan Pass and Milan’s city passes sets the four side by side.
Leonardo3 opening hours: every day of the year but Christmas
Leonardo3 has no weekly closing day at all, which makes it a good Monday plan while the civic museums are shut. Last entry is an hour before closing.
Opening hours
- October to March
- 9:30–20:00
- April to September
- 9:30–21:00
- 24 and 31 December
- 9:30–18:00
- 1 January
- 9:30–20:00
- 25 December
- Closed
Coats go in a free cloakroom, and there are lockers for €2. You can take photos and video for yourself in some areas, without flash or a tripod, but you can’t eat or drink inside, and dogs come in only in a bag or carrier. The whole museum is step-free, with a lift.
Getting to Leonardo3, five minutes from the Duomo
The entrance is at the Piazza della Scala end of the Galleria, at number 11, about five minutes on foot from the Duomo. The Duomo stop on the M1 and M3 metro lines is the nearest: from Milano Centrale take the M3, and from Cadorna the M1. Trams 1 and 2 stop at Manzoni-Scala and bus 61 at Verdi-Via dell’Orso, and if you’re driving, there’s an underground car park on Piazza Meda.
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Leonardo3 Museum with a city card
Pick the one that fits your trip. Prices are per adult, and you choose your dates on the next page.
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Frequently asked questions
Are there original works by Leonardo at Leonardo3?
No. The museum shows working models of Leonardo's machines, built from the drawings in his codices, digital restorations of his paintings and a reconstruction of the Last Supper's refectory. None of it is an original painting or drawing.
Is the Last Supper at Leonardo3 the real one?
No. Leonardo3 has a physical and digital reconstruction of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie as it looked in Leonardo's time. The painting itself is still in that refectory, and it's a separate visit that sells out months ahead.
Is Leonardo3 open on Mondays?
Yes. It has no weekly closing day and shuts only on 25 December. From October to March it opens from 9:30 to 20:00, and from April to September until 21:00. On 24 and 31 December it closes at 18:00.
Which Milan passes include Leonardo3?
The YesMilano City Pass, in both versions, the Milan Pass and the Milan City Card. On the YesMilano Standard it's one of 14 premium activities, of which you can book only one; the All-Inclusive covers all 14.
Is Leonardo3 accessible in a wheelchair?
Yes. The museum has a lift and no architectural barriers.
