PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea

Centro storico

PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
  • Location: PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
  • Address: Via Palestro 14
  • E-Mail: c.mostre@comune.milano.it
  • Phone#: +39 02 8844 6359
  • Opening: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9.30 am — 7.30 pm
    Tuesday and Thursday 9.30 am — 10.30 pm
    Closed on Monday

    Holiday opening hours
    24 December 9.30 am - 2.30 pm
    25 December 2.30 pm - 6.30 pm
    26 December 9.30 am - 10.30 pm
    31 December 9.30 am - 2.30 pm
    1st January 2.30 pm - 7.30 pm
    6 January 9.30 am - 7.30 pm
    Last admission one hour before closing time
     
    On Thursday open until 10.30 pm and the ticket is 50% off starting from 7.30 pm. Check opening hours and ticket prices!
  • Price: Full price € 8.00

    Reduced € 6.50

    groups of at least 15 people or accompanied by a group leader, visitors from 6 to 26 years old, visitors over 65 years old, disabled, Touring Club members and FAI members with membership card, MuseoCard, armed forces and police members not in service, teachers.

    Special reduced € 4.00

    student groups from schools of every order and grade; groups managed directly by  Touring Club and FAI; Civil Service volunteers with card; officials from the Municipality of  Milan upon presentation of the badge (guests in tow € 6.50).

    Free entrance

    children up to 6 years, one tour leader for every group, two tour leaders for every school  group, caregivers accompanying disabled visitors in need of support, a tour leader and  a guide for every Touring Club and FAI group, officials of the State and the regional  superintendents and officials of the municipal museums, accredited journalists, ICOM  members, tour leaders with card.

    Family ticket

    adult € 6.50 + child (under 14) € 4,00
  • Transportation: Public Transport
    atm-mi.it
    M1 Palestro e M3 Turati
    BUS 94 o 61 via Senato
    TRAM 1 piazza Cavour

    by bike
    with your own: PAC has bike racks inside the courtyard.
    Use the bike sharing service! Near PAC there are two parking places for BikeMi: at 59, Via  Palestro, and at 66, Piazza Cavour.

    by car
    with your own: parking area available in via Palestro (€ 2/h)
    by TAXI: nearest station Piazza Cavour T. +39 024040

    by train
    CENTRALE station: connection with line M3
    GARIBALDI station: connection with line M2
    PASSANTE FERROVIARIO, Porta Venezia station

    by plane
    from MALPENSA: Malpensa Express, connection with M1 (Cadorna) and M3 (Centrale)
    from LINATE: Bus X73 (San Babila) + M1 (Palestro)
PAC is one of the first examples in Italy of an exhibition space fully dedicated to contemporary art. Through its work, that began in 1979, it has always tried to generate all sorts of discussion on art and to call the attention to the contemporary projects, casting a glance towards the future.

The program of PAC is developed by the Department of Culture of Milan along with Italian and international guest curators, in cooperation with private partners for every  exhibition. Over the years, it has hosted key names in the international contemporary art  scene as Laurie Anderson, Kounellis, Duane Hanson, Emilio Vedova, Andres Serrano, Lucio Fontana, Richard Long, Vanessa Beecroft, Marina Abramovic, Yayoi Kusama,  Tony Oursler and many others. In addition to these projects, there are often proposals for research and experimentation with artists not well known to the Italian public yet and for an  overview on the national scene, with single and collective exhibitions dedicated to Italian  artists of different generations.
In parallel to the exhibitions, PAC is developing a project to promote the awareness of contemporary art, linking its exhibitions to special events and other projects in order  to gain understanding and deeper knowledge of the topics proposed. We organize  educational activities for adults and children, links to music and theatre programs, readings, meetings and conferences. So, in recent years, PAC has succeeded in reaching  an audience more and more interested and demanding, who closely follows all the initiatives.
Founding member of AMACI – the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums -  PAC also interacts with the most important players in Italy dealing with contemporary art: lenders and collectors, galleries and exhibition spaces, not to mention the close  relationship with the Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art of Milan (MiArt ), which  for some years has been producing and performing important artistic events.