Virtual tour
Virtual Tour List of visits Virtual Tour Elementary school:- Focus on life in the Renaissance- Focus on life in the 19th century- Saints, heroes, and super heroes: iconography- Artistic techniques and life in a workshop: how the great masters worked Please enable...
Exhibition Room
Exhibition Room Thanks to the project contributed by the Lissoni Associati studio, in June of 2015, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum inaugurated a new space: the exhibit room. Originally a changing room for Carolina and Giuseppe, the space changed functions many times,...
Green Room
Green Room This room, adjacent to the matrimonial bedroom, was Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi’s bedroom. As other aristocratic gentlemen of his day, Giuseppe had his own private bedroom. On the tables, some liturgical objects are displayed, such as fifteenth and sixteenth...
Room of the Valtellinese Stove
Room of the Valtellinese Stove This room is the first visitors encounter in the suite of Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi and his wife, Carolina Borromeo. It was used as a sitting room, and owes its name to the wooden wall paneling once gracing a room with a heating stove...
Bagatti Valsecchi Cabinet
Bagatti Valsecchi Cabinet This small room off of the Gallery of the Cupola was originally part of a stairwell. Today, it has been arranged as if it were a gentleman’s dressing room. Visitors can nose around looking at photographs, or open drawers and little doors to...
Entrance stairway
Entrance stairway A stairway with a beautiful wrought iron balustrade leads from the ticket area of the museum to the first – or ‘noble,’ as the Italians call it – floor of the mansion. From here, visitors enter the first room of Fausto’s suite. Even if some areas in...
Vestibule
Vestibule A small vestibule decorated with two sixteenth century stained glass windows (The Dormition of St. Martha; The Crucifixion) leads to Fausto’s...
Daily life in the Renaissance
Daily life in the Renaissance list of visits Daily life in the Renaissance Piquing curiosity through peeking at daily life in the Renaissance, this visit emphasizes every day habits. How did people bathe…if they did, at all…in the Renaissance? What did they eat? Did...
Treasure hunt
Treasure hunt list of visits Treasure hunt A fun treasure hunt in the magic rooms of the museum: the furnishings, the paintings and the objects offer hints for completing the treasure hunt while using their capacity of observation, memory and team spirit. Since it is...
Glass
Glass List of visits Glass Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi, their house and its works of art are the protagonists of a visit dedicated to the historic house museum in via Gesù and to the treasures it preserves. After having carefully examined the glass objects...
Red Room
Red Room The grand Sicilian bed of gilded wrought iron dominates the matrimonial bedroom of Carolina Borromeo and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi. The sumptuous ambiance of the room offers the right background for the collection of beautiful fifteenth and sixteenth century...
Weapons tales
Weapons tales List of visits Weapons tales The history armory is one of the most fascinating places in the museum. In this long corridor, the two brothers exhibited their collection of arms and armor, one of the distinctive traits of Lombard collecting. As in the rest...
Hunt for details
Hunt for details List of visits Hunt for details A special visit thanks to the Silent Book, a little book made up only of images. Realized thanks to the generous contribution of the Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte Foundation and inspired by the Wordless Book for kids,...
Discover who I am
Discover who I am List of visits Discover who I am From St. Justine to the Beatified Giustiniani, and from allegories to divinities: every image carries within itself stories and narratives. The house of the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers is full of voices able to tell...
Turn-of-the-century Milan
Turn-of-the-century Milan Lists of visits Turn-of-the-century Milan Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi, their home and their art works are the protagonists of this visit dedicated to the historic house museum in via Gesù and to the treasures it preserves. Past and...
The house in time
The house in time List of visits The house in time Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi, their home and their works of art are the protagonists of this visit dedicated to the historic house museum in via Gesù and to the treasures it preserves. It is a house, and so...
Room of the Fresco
Room of the Fresco A vestibule leads to the Room of the Fresco, which derives its name from a 1495 work by Antonio Boselli, a painter from the area around Bergamo. Depicting the Madonna of Mercy, the fresco comes from the parish church of Ponteranica (province of...
Bevilacqua Room
Bevilacqua Room The Bevilacqua Room was the elegant private sitting room of Fausto Bagatti Valsecchi. Only in this room and in the Grand Salon are preserved the original precious wall coverings designed by the brothers for these rooms, and woven for them at the end of...
Library
Library The library, planned to offer an ambiance well-suited for study and concentration, is furnished with built-in wooden cabinets. The room’s pictorial decoration, realized in 1887 by Luigi Cavenaghi, was inspired by the 16th century frescoes by Bergognone in the...