School groups of all levels can choose among four types of visits
Independent visits
You can book tickets for an independent visit of the Cenacolo Vinciano Museum accompanied by a teacher through the School and Group Office.
Guided tours
To discover the masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci and know more about the monastery complex of Santa Maria delle Grazie, which is a listed UNESCO treasure, you can book a standard guided tour.
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The standard guided tour includes different steps, the main one being the contemplation of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
Your will be driven into a spiritual journey, looking at the pivotal figure of Jesus and those of the twelve Apostles to understand the realism which characterizes the painting by the world-renowned Florentine Master.
The tour will also provide background information about the troubled history of the masterpiece, starting from farsighted Duke Ludovico il Moro, who appointed Leonardo and Bramante to design the complex of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and coming down to the devastating bombing of 1943 and the most recent restoration works.
INFO AND COSTS
- The guided tour lasts 45 minutes (15 minutes inside the refectory and 30 minutes afterwards)
- Prices starting from € 85,00
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The whispers system is mandatory and the cost is € 1,00 per person
The standard guided tour is available upon request by filling out the form below.
The guided tour can be provided in the following languages: IT 🇮🇹 / EN 🇬🇧 / FR 🇫🇷
Guided tour combined with a workshop
A special experience to discover what makes The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci a unique world treasure.
The guided tour combined with a workshop includes the contemplation of The Last Supper inside the refectory with explanations by the guide and a practical workshop afterwards, which takes place inside the educational room. The workshop enables visitors to experiment with the techniques and tools exploited by the Florentine Master.
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LEONARDO AND HIS DRAWING TECHNIQUE: THE SANGUIGNA
How did the Florentine Master work? Why did he leave behind thousands of drawings? What materials and tools did he use? After the visit of the Cenacolo Vinciano, inside the educational room, you will experiment with the sanguigna technique – a sort of blood-red pencil – to draw chiaroscuro and sfumato effects imitating the Master.
LEONARDO AND HIS DRAWING TECHNIQUE: THE FACES
How did Leonardo draw faces? What was his secret to make his figures look so real? After the visit of the Cenacolo Vinciano, inside the educational room, you will experiment with drawing the face of your classmate, exploiting Leonardo’s set of samples.
THE CENACOLO: SILENT POETRY
After the visit of the Cenacolo Vinciano, inside the educational room, you will make a modern living painting, experimenting with Leonardo’s spirituality and our modern-day gestures and emotions.
INFO AND COSTS
- The guided tour combined with a workshop lasts 75 minutes (15 minutes inside the refectory and 60 minutes inside the educational room)
- The cost is € 140,00 per class
- The whispers system is mandatory and the cost is € 1,00 per person
The guided tour combined with a workshop is available upon request by filling out the form below.
The guided tour combined with a workshop can be provided in the following languages: IT 🇮🇹 / EN 🇬🇧
Combo guided tour
Discover Milan of the Renaissance, the places where Leonardo lived and worked at Duke Ludovico il Moro’s service.
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You can combine the guided tour of the Cenacolo Vinciano Museum with one of the following visits.
CENACOLO AND SANTA MARIA DELLE GRAZIE
Leonardo was a great walker: every day, through the Vercellina Gate, he would walk in the sun – even in the hot summer – to reach the Dominican monastery delle Grazie and paint his true masterpiece, the Last Supper.
Why was he commissioned to work at this monastery? What is the story of the building, a listed UNESCO heritage since 1980 together with the painting made by Leonardo in the refectory? Which people did Leonardo meet in Milan? Who did he interact, work and meditate with?
We will find out all this information by visiting the basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie, where the great architect Donato Bramante also worked to build the Tribuna.
CENACOLO AND SAN MAURIZIO AL MONASTERO MAGGIORE
The church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore is reasonably named “the Sistine chapel of Milan” for the extraordinary frescos made by one of Leonardo’s followers, Bernardino Luini, and his atelier.
CENACOLO AND PINACOTECA AMBROSIANA
The Ambrosiana Picture Gallery, one of the first museum in the world to be opened to the public, features the well-known Codice Atlantico by Leonardo da Vinci and the portrait of a musician, the only male figure painted by Leonardo. It also houses one of the earliest replicas of the Last Supper, commissioned by Federico Borromeo to keep the memory of this unique painting, which began suffering from significant damage fairly soon after it was first painted.
The Picture Gallery also houses other world-famous masterpieces, like the Fruit Basket by Caravaggio and the preparatory cartoons of the School of Athens by Raffaello.
CENACOLO AND CASTELLO SFORZESCO (150 minutes)
A visit of the Sforza Castle, the dwelling of the aristocracy of Milan, offers the opportunity to better understand the reasons behind Leonardo’s stay in Milan.
Here Leonardo met an extraordinary patron like Ludovico il Moro, for whom he designed stage settings for parties, made studies on water and developed military strategies and weapons.
The castle still features the famous Sala delle Asse, which was painted by the Florentine genius in honor of the Duke to resemble a mulberry tree pergola.
INFO AND COSTS
- Combo guided tour Cenacolo and Santa Maria delle Grazie € 155,00 per class (90 minutes)
- Combo guided tour Cenacolo and San Maurizio € 185,00 per class (120 minutes)
- Combo guided tour Cenacolo and Pinacoteca Ambrosiana € 175,00 per class (150 minutes)
- Combo guided tour Cenacolo and Castello Sforzesco € 175,00 per class (150 minutes)
- The whispers system is mandatory and the cost is € 2,00 per person
The tickets for the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana and the Castello Sforzesco are to be added to the cost of the combo guided tour.
The combo guided tour is available upon request by filling out the form below.
The combo guided tour can be provided in the following languages: IT 🇮🇹 / EN 🇬🇧
Booking through the school and group office
From 12:00 pm on the 10th of December it will be possible to book tickets for the quarter from the 1st of February 2024 to the 30th of April 2025.
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- The group can include a maximum number of 30 people, or 29 people + 1 guide (if the group has a guide)
- Fill out a form or send one email to cenacologruppi@adartem.it for each request: multiple requests will not be answered. If you send us a request by email, you need to clearly specify all the mandatory information included in the form. If we receive an email with multiple requests we will process only the first request in the list, or the first one which can be met
- Your request will be processed in the quickest possible time, following a chronological order, the overall expected reply time being three working days (from Monday to Friday 9am to 1pm ad 2pm to 6pm)
- Your request will be allocated in the time slots reserved for school visits
- Once you receive a reply from us confirming the availability of tickets for the date/dates requested, the school administration office has to send us a witten confirmation within 21 days and the list of names of the students and teachers who will join the visit. If the documents specified above are not provided, the booking will be cancelled
- Entry tickets to the Cenacolo Vinciano Museum must be individually named: the names of all visitors are needed before the tickets are purchased. Change of names is possible up to 24 hours before the time of the visit clicking on this link
- The use of the whispers system is mandatory, independently from the number of students in the group. Microphones and earphones are not available at the Museum
- The official guided tours are run by Ad Artem: select it on the request form
Be aware that requests which do not comply with what stated above will not be processed.
Be aware that the use of the whispers system is mandatory for any guided tour, independently from the number of people in the group.
Book your visit
Fill out a form providing information about your class.
Be aware that requests which do not comply with what stated above will not be processed.
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