Museum City 2019
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum once again participates in the city’s event dedicated to museums (1-3 March 2019). This year’s theme? Flowers! The museum proposes three initiatives: Saturday, March 2, 2019, 3 PM Guided visit, “Art and botany at the...
Trip to Vicenza (in Italian)
The masterpieces of the great 18th century of Venetian art, patrimony of the Pushkin Museum of Moscow, make a special appearance in Italy in the exhibit, The Triumph of Color. From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi. Vicenza and the Masterpieces of the Pushkin Museum of...The sculpture from Norcia: restored
In 2016, a terrible earthquake struck the eastern coast of Italy, and many art works were damaged. In 2017, an effort of solidarity was promoted by ICOM Italia (the Italian committee of the International Council of Museums) called Adopt a Museum. The Bagatti Valsecchi...
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....
Bagatti Valsecchi Collection: for young adult Friends of the Museum (in Italian)
The Bagatti Valsecchi is a historic house museum, the results of an extraordinary adventure of collecting at the end of the 19th century. The two protagonists were brothers: the Barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi. A special guided visit (in Italian) is...
Tracking nobility: heraldic crests in Milan (in Italian)
We often notice heraldic crests over age-old mansions or in the decorative elements of churches and monuments. Sometimes easy to understand, sometimes of the most diverse, mysterious and strange types, they are difficult to decode in a single glance. Heraldry...Bubbles at the museum (in Italian)
Thursday, October 11, 7:30 PM: an aperitif in the Grand Salon of the museum to taste three kinds of Altemasi spumanti. The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is participating in the Vendemmia di Montenapoleone (The Grape Harvest of Montenapoleone) with two appointments, and is...Two appointments to celebrate the grape harvest
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum will participate in the 2018 “Vendemmia di Montenapoleone” event (The Grape Harvest of Montenapoleone) with two appointments and a celebration of a new partnership with Cavit Altemasi, a prestigious brand of Trentodoc, the...
MOVE IT – Milan’s treasure hunt (in Italian)
Teams together exploring Milan’s streets for MOEVES – in the Milanese dialect for “move it!…get going!” – on Sunday the 7th of October, 2018. From trying things out in hidden workshops and queries to resolve: Milan’s treasure...
Wednesday June 20: special opening hours, Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, and a film
For the last Wednesday of the exhibit Love, Museums, Inspiration at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, the opening hours are extended until 11 P.M.; the cost of the regular entry ticket is reduced to 6 Euros. At 9 P.M., the documentary Istanbul Collecting will be shown....
Your photographic portrait with a favorite object at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
The extraordinary evocative power of objects becomes the protagonist of the June 9 initiative at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum for Milano Photo Week in a tight dialogue with the exhibit Love, Museums and Inspiration: the Museum of Innocence of Orhan Pamuk in Milan. In...
Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice (in Italian)
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in the erstwhile home of Petty Guggenheim, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Canal Grande in Venice. Opened in...
Mediterranean “Contamination”: Turkish food at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
The Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum honor Pamuk and his Museum of Innocence with an evening dedicated to Turkish customs. Taking as a point-of-departure the display cabinets in the exhibit, Marta Ottaviano – a journalist and expert on Turkey – will...