I tesori della Ca' Granda

I tesori della Ca' Granda is a museum in Milan, housed within the historic Ospedale Maggiore, now called Policlinico di Milano. Francesco Sforza founded the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan in 1456.

Its collections connect medical history with Milanese art, focusing on people and instruments linked to the hospital. The Quadreria dei Benefattori holds more than 900 portraits.

Lombard artists created these portraits from the seventeenth century onward, portraying benefactors from varied social backgrounds. Their generosity gives the collection its shared subject.

More than 2,000 medical instruments trace changing practices and the hospital's role in medical science. The archive adds documents from the institution's past.

A library of 100,000 volumes and a phototheque of 29,000 images broaden the museum's historical record. Together, these holdings show Ca' Granda through art, care, and evidence.

The hospital began as an institution serving Milan's less fortunate citizens, linking its collections to a history of care. Its story joins generosity with medical advancement in Milan.

Portraits, instruments, books, photographs, and archival materials create several views of the same institution. The museum preserves that connection in Milan.