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) This new project of the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association against the cultural deprivation of children has been realized together...
How to use the right words on any occasion (in Italian)
Do you want to be sure to say the right thing in any situation, whether in Italian, English, or in any other language? “Come usare le parole giuste in qualsiasi occasione” (How to say the right thing in any situation) will be presented (in Italian) at the...
Neoclassical culture in Milan (videoconference in Italian)
Join an online overview in Italian at the end of November of the Neoclassical period in Lombardy. If you’re not familiar with this pivotal period in Lombardy, then it’ll be great for general information, but it’ll also be a useful background for our...Video conference: art and literature (in Italian)
Art and Literature: video conference (in Italian) Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 6:30 PM Speaker: Alessandra Montalbetti ‘At the age of seventy, whoever doesn’t read will have lived only one life: their own. Whoever reads will have lived 5,000 years. They...
Join the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association
The Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Association invites you to join them in sharing their love of art. Interesting trips in, around, and near Milan with expert guides will even help you polish your Italian, and Friends enjoy various benefits – such as...Art and publicity: video talk (in Italian)
Art and publicity: copying was never so easy… (in honor of Gillo Dorfles) Video talk (in Italian) Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, 6:30 P.M. CET (GMT + 1) Speaker: Alessandra Montalbetti We miss Gillo Dorfles a lot, and most of all for his lucidity and his ironic...
Milan Literary Tour: the Marvels of Milan by Bonvesin de la Riva (in Italian)
‘Mediolanum, what a beautiful name for a city! It begins and ends with the same letter, “m,” of all the letters, the most majestic and solemn, and preserves in its center an “o,” symbol of its perfect circular form, like the form of its...
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. Bagatti Valsecchi Home, 1883-1975: anecdotes and family memories (in Italian) Sunday, October 4,...
Tour street art (in Italian)
Street art and graffiti, born in the United States as expressive and rebellious forms, have conquered the whole world, and even the walls of Milan. The unconventional tour will help you discover its origins and the stories about the protagonists and their various...
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. It’s an advantageous opportunity for coming back to the museum free-of-charge...Videoconference: Art and Cinema (in Italian)
June 4, 4 P.M. Italian time ART AND CINEMA: THE TENTH MUSE AND ARTISTIC LANGUAGE Held by Alessandra Montalbetti Cinematography, made possible thanks to the film and projection machines of the brothers Auguste e Louis Lumière, is the most recent of the figurative arts,...
Videoconference: Introduction to Street Art (in Italian)
May 20, 4 P.M. Italian time INTRODUCTION TO STREET ART (in Italian) Held by Veronica Azimonti – WAAM Tours Hailing from the U.S. as a form of rebellion, street art and graffiti have conquered the world and the walls in Milan, by now. They offer a different view...
For Mother’s Day: give our Friends’ Association membership card
Sunday, May 10, is Mother’s Day Give the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi membership card € 30 instead of € 40 Give your mother, or the mothers you love, a moment of beauty, art and culture! An act of love for those who receive it and an important support for...
Day trip to Verona (in Italian)
More than 70 works by Giacometti are displayed in Verona, from the most renowned sculptures to drawings and paintings, from the days of his youth in Switzerland with the first marvelous drawings at the age of little more than ten to the inaugural sculptures done at...
Between heaven and earth – Lombard landscapes (in Italian)
A visit to MUFOCO – the museum of contemporary photography, where there is an exhibit that is part of a project involving more than 200 artists who photographed more than 3,000 sites in Lombardy. Photographs and projections of “santelle” –...
Filippo de Pisis (in Italian)
Displayed in ten rooms, this exhibition unwinds chronologically, introducing 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...
Dreams of the Orient. Monet, van Gogh, Gauguin, Italians and Japan (visit in Italian)
Protective of its culture and economy, Japan kept its borders closed to outsiders for centuries. Too tempting a morsel, it was forced militarily to open up in the mid-19th century. The west’s fascination with Japan exploded, and Japanese artists found a way to...
De Chirico at Milan’s Palazzo Reale
The De Chirico exhibit presents more than 120 masterpieces of this great artist of the 20th century. They illustrate the evolution and originality of his painting in an arc of time that goes from his first stay in Paris (1912) and his encounter with the avantgarde...
Tour of the Biblioteca Braidense (in Italian)
When tourists cross the threshhold of the Biblioteca Braidense, a gleam of light enters their eyes, an extraordinary light of the unexpected, of discovery. Located in the Brera quarter (hence “Braidense”) in a mid-seventeenth century ex-monastery...