Who we are
The Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association was born in 1996 in order to support the museum in all its cultural, tutelage and highlighting activities dedicated to the exhibited patrimony.
Founded and presided by Laura Cellina Amisano until her death in 2012, the Association has among its first merit worthy activities the pioneering creation of a service of museum guards in the rooms that were entrusted to motivated and competent volunteers.
The activities of the association continue, today, under the guidance of President Anna Maria Bagatti Valsecchi and its board:
President
Anna Maria Bagatti Valsecchi
Treasurer
Anna Maria Bagatti Valsecchi
Vice President
Adriana Colombo Fiore
Board of Arbitrators
Anna Colombo Fiore
Mario Fiore
Ruth Westen Pavese
Board members
Camilla Bagatti Valsecchi
Anna Balatti Folladori
Rosa Maria Bruni Fossati
Paolo Emilio Colao
Carlina Mapelli Mozzi Sala
Cristina Sottotetti
Ruth Westen Pavese
Board of account auditors
Marco Persico
Speechati – Young Friends
Speechati is the section for the young members of the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association.
Formed in 2013 by a group of university students wanting to ‘get moving,’ to spread the good word about the museum among their peers (from this the group’s name), and to contribute to focusing attention in Milan on art and culture.
The group organizes periodic activities alternating those held within the museum’s walls with those of cultural visits to other places, always enriched with a convivial moment.
It’s easy to become friends
The benefits and the fees
Free entrance
Bagatti Valsecchi Museum – Gallerie d’Italia, Milan, Naples, Vicenza – Fondazione Ugo Da Como, Lonato BS – GAMeC, Bergamo – AMART Art is Milan
Reduced entrance fee
Casa-Museo Lodovico Pogliaghi, Varese – Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera BS – Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano – Museo Diocesano e Complesso di Sant’Eustorgio, Milano – Cinema Arcobaleno, Milano (From Monday to Friday) – Palazzo Vertemate Franchi, Piuro SO
Reductions
Card delle case-museo di Milano (15,00€) – Teatro Manzoni, Via Manzoni 42 – Teatro Fontana in via Gian Antonio Boltraffio 21 – Teatro Gerolamo in Piazza Beccaria 8 – Ottica Cenisio in via Borgese 1 –
Sconto 20%
Hangar Bicocca: cataloghi istituzionali venduti al bookshop
Sconto 15%
Libreria Bocca – Libri d’Arte in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele 12
Sconto 10%
Ingresso alle proprietà FAI – Hangar Bicocca: merchandising istituzionale venduto al bookshop
If not otherwise indicated, the discounts are not combinable with sales, promotions and special offers
Regular Member
Euro 40,00
(additional family members: Euro 20.00, each)
Young Membership
Euro 10,00
(up to 35 anni)
Sustaining Membership
Euro 150,00
More benefits:
10% discount on all Bagatti Valsecchi Museum merchandise for sale in the museum’s shop
Invitations to the museum’s exhibit inaugurations
Supporter member emeritus
Euro 250,00
More benefits:
10% discount at the museum shop
Invitations to the museum’s exhibit inaugurations
Special conditions for organizing guided visits and evenings at the museum
Benefactor
Euro 500,00
More benefits:
10% discount at the museum shop
Invitations to the museum’s exhibit inaugurations
Special conditions for organizing guided visits and evenings at the museum
Invitations to special events
Become a member
Fill the form to join, you will receive an email confirmation and the directions to pay the fee by bank transfer or directly to the our secretary.
More Information
The Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association’s office is open by appointment in via Gesù 5, Milan.
For more info:
T (+39) 02 7600 6132
C (+39) 342 323 1016
amici@museobagattivalsecchi.org
amicimuseobagattivalsecchi@pec.it
News & Events
“Barefoot in the park” (guided visit in Italian)
Stroll in the park of Porta Venezia …
My House is a Museum: a project against the cultural deprivation of kids
My House is a Museum: a project against the cultural deprivation of kids — a Webinar Presentation (in Italian).
How to use the right words on any occasion (in Italian)
A presentation of the new book, “Come usare le parole giuste in qualsiasi occasione” (How to say the right thing in any situation) by Samuele Briatore
Neoclassical culture in Milan (videoconference in Italian)
Join an online overview (in Italian) at the end of November of the Neoclassical period in Lombardy …
Video conference: art and literature (in Italian)
Between art and literature the ties are delicate, but non-negotiable. From Futurists preaching interdisciplinarity to writers working on biographies – true or sincere – of painters or sculptors, the word becomes a pen masterfully offered to our senses. (in Italian)
Join the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association
Join the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association to share your love of art (and get some great benefits, too!).
Art and publicity: video talk (in Italian)
Just how many ad campaigns fish in the sea of the patrimony of well known and recognizable world art, if they don’t actually sack it? We ask ourselves…but, then, what product will we buy? A video talk (in Italian) for the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum.
Urban tour – Street Art: Isola (in Italian)
Street art and graffiti, born in the US as forms expressing rebellion, have by now conquered the world, and even the walls of Milan. The tour will take us in an unconventional way to discover the origins of and to plumb the history of the protagonists and of the different kinds of motivation of the artistic phenomenon that is street art, starting right with the streets in which the works are born. (in Italian)
Milan Literary Tour: the Marvels of Milan by Bonvesin de la Riva (in Italian)
Tour of medieval Milan (in Italian): The Marvels of Milan by Bonvesin de la Riva
Bagatti Valsecchi Home, 1883-1975: anecdotes and family memories (in Italian)
What was it like to live in the museum when it was still a private home? This will be the theme of the conversation with some members of the Bagatti Valsecchi family. (In Italian)
Tour street art (in Italian)
Street art tour (in Italian) in Milan for the members of the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Milan, Italy.
Complimentary Friends membership cards ’til the end of June
From the 19th to the 30th of June, with the purchase of an entrance ticket all visitors will receive a complimentary membership card for the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum. Get free visits and discounts. Check out the benefits!
Videoconference: Art and Cinema (in Italian)
June 4, 4 PM Italian time: Art & Cinema, videoconference (in Italian) of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Milan, Italy
Videoconference: Introduction to Street Art (in Italian)
May 20, 4 P.M. Italian time, video conference (in Italian) on Street Art with the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Milan, Italy
For Mother’s Day: give our Friends’ Association membership card
Give art and culture for Mother’s Day: the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Friends’ Association membership card.
Day trip to Verona (in Italian)
Day trip to Verona (in Italian): visit of the exhibit “Al tempo di Giacometti da Chagall a Kandinsky – Capolavori della Fondazione Maeght” and a visit of the city
Between heaven and earth – Lombard landscapes (in Italian)
Visit (in Italian) to the exhibit of photographs and projections of “santelle” – devotional niches – and wall affrescoes with religious images and above all the changing Lombard landscapes that the saints “look at” since their image was created.
Filippo de Pisis (in Italian)
Visit (in Italian) to the exhibition De Pisis introduces visitors to the universe of Filippo de Pisis (Ferrara, 1896 – Milan, 1956), from his debut in 1916 and his encounter with the Metaphysical painting of de Chirico to the beginning of the 1950s and the dramatic period of his recovery in a psychiatric clinic.
Dreams of the Orient. Monet, van Gogh, Gauguin, Italians and Japan (visit in Italian)
Visit (in Italian): Dreams of the Orient @ MUDEC with the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association
De Chirico at Milan’s Palazzo Reale
November 7, 2019: Visit (in Italian) of the De Chirico exhibit, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, with the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association.
“…the Illuminating Gas” (in Italian)
A visit in Italian for young adults (ages 18 to 35) to “…the Illuminating Gas”: the new exhibit of Cerith Wyn Evans (Llanelli, UK, 1958; lives and works in London) at the Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.