Visit to the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (in Italian)
Like seeing masterpieces of art? Caravaggio, Raphael, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Bramante, Michelangelo, Titian, even Leonardo and company ring your chimes? Interested in historic female painters? There’s Lavinia Fontana. Prefer the quirky? How about a curl of...
Day trip to Vigevano
Under the Visconti and Sforza dynasties, Vigevano reached its maximum splendor becoming a ducal residence and a significantly important place for shopping. The city developed curling around the castle that represented one of the biggest fortified complexes in Europe....
Collectors for a day visit the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum (in Italian)
As part of the “Collectors for a day” program, the participants can visit the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, and will get a free tour (in Italian). Sunday, October 27, 2019, 4:30 PM Places limited, reservations required,...
Labyrinth of Arnaldo Pomodoro
The Labyrinth: Arnoldo Pomodoro’s one and only environmental installation on which he worked for years, from 1995 to 2011, an artistic evolution. With it, he transformed his creative artistic path into a physical experience made of bronze, fiberglass and copper...Onegin at La Scala with Collectors For A Day 2019
The Milan Foundation for La Scala is happy to offer to the participants of Collectors For a Day 2019 – in which the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum happily takes part – the possibility to watch a rehearsal of the ballet Onegin. Saturday, October 19, 2019, 2-4 PM...
Leonardo’s “Sala delle asse” restored
An exceptional witness to the presence of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) at the Sforza court, the “Sala delle Asse” is one of the most illustrious rooms of the castle. Located on the ground floor under the north-east “falconer” tower, the room...
Collectors for a day (in Italian)
Speechati – the young adult Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum – launches a new challenge for those 35 and under in Milan: to become collectors for a day! On Sunday, October 13, 2019, this city game played in the streets of Milan will transform the...
Literary tour of Milan: Manzoni’s The Betrothed
“Let the reader immagine the courtyard of the plague hospital, populated by sixteen thousand plague victims; that completely crowded space, with huts and hovels, with carriages, with people; those interminable perspectives of porticoes, on the left and on the...
Day trip to the Oltrepò pavese area: in search of beauty
In the Val di Nizza, passing through scenes of mountains, forests and large meadows, the thousand-year old Hermitage of Sant’Alberto di Butrio is reached. Founded by this saint at the beginning of the 11th century, it is made up of buildings dedicated to both...
MiTo 2019 discounts for museum Friends
Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum can go to some Festival MITO SettembreMusica 2019 concerts for reduced prices. Here a list (in Italian) of the participating concerts: link Concert commentary will be in Italian, but the music is universal. These discounts are...
Theater discounts for Friends (2019/2020)
If you are a member in good standing of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Friends Association, you can get discounted tickets to see events at these theaters: 2019/2020 Subscription Season (unless otherwise specified, the events are in Italian; consult each theater’s...
Amicis semper libens patebo
Together, GAMI (the association of young adult friends of museums in Italy) and each participating museum’s young adult Friends Association group propose a weekend with the theme of Museums as meeting places for cultures. Speechati – the young adults group...
Trip to historic homes, precious collections and luscious gardens in the Garda area
At Lonato, an antique village in the rocky hills extending southward from Garda Lake in the territory of Brescia, there is the fifteenth century “House of the Chief Magistrate” (Podestà). Having become the residence of Senater Ugo da Como (1869-1941) in...
Etiquette at the time of Leonardo da Vinci (in Italian)
The Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum celebrate Leonardo da Vinci proposing an evening that is well-suited to a noble house like the Bagatti Valsecchi: etiquette and good table manners of the sixteenth century. Not everyone knows, in fact, that at the court of...
Villa Ghirlanda Silva and MUFOCO (in Italian)
Villa Ghirlanda Silva is one of the noble villas of the 17th century present in Cinisello Balsamo. It was a “pleasure villa”, a classic suburban home that the nobles of the day used to build outside the city for sojourns and vacations. The southern wing of...
FuturDome + aperitif with music
Futurdome is a project of museum/housing unique in Italy. It was born of the rennovation of a historic mansion in the “Liberty” style – as Milanese call their city’s own particular kind of Art Nouveau. The mansion had been used for meeting at...
Complex of Sant’Eustorgio
Tradition tells us that Milan’s conversion to Christianity began with St. Barnabus from what is now the church of Sant’Eustorgio. The complex is also renowned for the presence (today, only partial) of relics held to be of the Three Magi, which made the...
Open Care (in Italian)
Founded in 2003, Open Care is a European company that offers integrated services for the conservation, management and highlighting of art works and collections. In fact, it’s Open Care that is taking care of the restauration of the Bagatti Valsecchi...
Banksy, with the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
Banksy, an English artist and writer whose real identity is still unknown, is considered one of the most important exponents of contemporary street art. His works often are tinged with satire and treat universal themes, such as politics, culture and ethics. Just like...