Museo Astronomico di Brera
In the historic Palazzo Brera, the Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera is one of Milan’s longest-running scientific institutions, built in 1764 by the Jesuit astronomer Roger Boscovich. Its early life was shaped by empire and reform: after the Jesuits were suppressed by Pope Clement XIV on 21 July 1773, the palace and observatory passed to the Austrian Habsburg dynasty. A key moment came when the Austrian Empire adopted “transalpine time” in 1786, and astronomers helped install a meridian line in Milan Cathedral, commissioned by Count Giuseppe Di Wilczek and constructed by Giovanni Angelo Cesaris and Francesco Reggio, with Boscovich advising. Later, the observatory’s Italian era advanced in 1862, when the government commissioned a 218mm Merz Equatorial Refracting Telescope from Georg Merz. …
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