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Museo d'arte e scienza
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Museo d'arte e scienza

📍 Via Quintino Sella 4, Milano, 20121🏛 Italian national heritage

The Museo d’Arte e Scienza, founded in 1990 on the initiative of the German physicist Gottfried Matthaes, turns a classic museum mission into a practical one: proving whether an artwork or antique is authentic. Close to the Castello Sforzesco, it hosts major collections of Buddhist art and African art, along with a learning path dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci. The museum’s highlight is its course on authenticity recognition, moving room by room through materials and objects—from painting on canvas and wood to excavation ceramics, antique furniture, amber and ivory, silverwork, prints and old books, and even tapestries and carpets. In each case, the focus is on the concrete features that help distinguish a real object from a fake. …

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