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...
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...
In September: guided visits and chances to sharpen your powers of observation
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum celebrates the end of September and the arrival of autumn with activites that people have already enjoyed a lot. For the Fridays and Saturdays of the last two weekends of the month (18th and 19th; 25th and 26th), our Silent Book will be...
Free guided visits (in Italian)
On Saturdays in July, there will be free guided visits (in Italian) of the Bagatti Valsecchi collections, leading the visitors through stories of its Renaissance and Neo-Renaissance furnishings and art and its erstwhile inhabitants. Saturday 4, 11, 18, and 25 July,...
“I’ll go with you to the museum” – in Italian
“I’ll go with you to the museum”: from mid June until the end of the month for the first two weekends open to the public after lockdown, there will be two guided visits in Italian every day for just the full cost of the regular entrance ticket. The...
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...
Of arms and other stories (in Italian)
After a half a year of work on the shields, swords, arms and armor at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, they have returned to shine in the prestigious arms gallery on the museum’s first, “noble,” floor. But what happens behind the doors of a restoration...
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...Museum by Candlelight
Museum by candlelight: two candlelight visits organized for March 1, 2019, the day dedicated to saving energy and to ecofriendly lifestyles. Italian piazzas, monuments (the Tower of Pisa, the Colosseum, the Arena in Verona), the important palaces that are symbols of...
Paul Klee @ MUDEC, Milan (in Italian)
The Paul Klee exhibit at MUDEC presents the work of this great German artist in a wholly new light: the primitivism and ‘return to origins’ that characterized Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. In a world in which modernity seemed to become ever...
Traveling with Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi (in Italian)
What did Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi have to pack when they decided to go on a trip? First, a nice big trunk would be just the thing in which they could put everything they needed. Let’s discover together here and there in the rooms all the things that...
Milano and Cinema (in Italian)
If in people’s minds the Italian cities traditionally associated with the world of cinema are Rome (for Cinecittà) and Venice (for the Biennale), Milan’s crucial role in experimenting with this 7th form of art and spreading it outside of Italy’s...
A Scary Museum: the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum (in Italian)
Darkness sneaks over the city, and creeps into the rooms of the Bagatti Valsecchi family mansion…it’s Halloween at the museum, and time for visits in the dark by flashlight to discover the house’s skeletons and skulls and maybe even some ghosts....