Angelo Crespi succeeded James Bradburne as the Director General of the Pinacoteca di Brera in January 2024. The main public gallery for paintings in Milan is an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera
Academy. It shares the site in the Palazzo Brera with the Braidense Library, the Schiaparelli Astronomical Observatory, the Botanical Garden, and the Lombard Institute founded by Napoleon, which is the Academy of Science and Letters. There is also the Lombard Historical Society, and the Ricordi Historical Archives. These are the multiple units within the Brera complex.....