[2] In 2018 it was announced that Caserma Magenta was no longer a viable option, with the former railway yard in Via Farini now under consideration as a potential venue for the campus extension.

[5] Like other state-run art academies in Italy, the Accademia di Brera falls under the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education and research.

[1] It participates in the ERASMUS programme, and exchanges students and teachers with institutions in other countries in Europe and elsewhere.

[9] The picture gallery of the accademia, now the Pinacoteca di Brera, was started in 1806, in Napoleonic times.

The façade of the church of Santa Maria in Brera of the former monastery was torn down and the nave of the church was divided horizontally; the upper floor became the Napoleonic rooms of the art gallery of the Accademia, which opened in 1809 as the Reale Galleria, and the lower floor housed the sculptures of the museum of antiquities.