A Mysterious Aperitif 2018 (in Italian)
Seven characters, a fascinating mansion and a homicide: the museum’s aperitif gets tinted with red. In addition to an aperitif on our lovely terrace, the members of Speechati – the young adults branch of the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum...Download the app Love, Museums and Inspiration – Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
The app ‘Amore, musei, ispirazione’ contains the free audio guide in English and Italian for the “Love, Museums and Inspiration” exhibit at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum. The exhibit is a fascinating short circuit between the inspiring museum...
Delightful Harpsichord Music at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
Come enjoy three delightful Sunday afternoons with harpsichord music, sometimes accompanied by flutes and even by a chamber music group. The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum together with a group of professionals, the Omaggio al Clavicembalo, celebrate the 350th birth...
Film: Istanbul and Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, April 21, 2:30 PM
For the exhibit “Love, Museums, Inspiration” – open until the 24th of June at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum – there will be a special showing on April 21 at 2:30 PM of the Grant Gee documentary dedicated to Pamuk’s museum in Istanbul....Design Week 2018
From the 17th to the 21st of April, the Museum welcomes MAXIMIN: Modernist Expressions by Kohler Free entry from 10 AM to 7 PMFrida Kahlo (in Italian)
A visit to Frida. Oltre il Mito (Frida. Beyond the Myth): an extraordinary opportunity to discover the works of the noted Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, through her paintings, as well as new ways of looking that have emerged from recent studies. For the first time in...
Guided visit to the exhibit, “Albrecht Dürer” (in Italian)
It’s the first extremely important exhibit that the city dedicates to this most famous German artist, who knew how to integrate Renaissance artistic grace with then-modern scientific and mathematical research. Considered the most important artist of the German...
Let’s design art 2018 (in Italian)
An animal hunt in the rooms of the museum: lions, turtles, lizards…. How many little beasts are hiding in the house of Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi! Come help us find them, and together we will discover the history of the mansion in via Gesù and its...
Theatrical readings from works of Orhan Pamuk: Giovanni Crippa (in Italian)
Giovanni Crippa will read excerpts from the Italian edition of Orhan Pamuk’s novel Istanbul. It will be possible to visit the exhibit Love, Museums and Inspiration. Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence in Milan from 6PM to 7PM. Information is available in...
Visit with chatbot – Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
A brief guided visit (in Italian) organized by Art and the city will introduce you to the house and to the collections of the Barons Bagatti Valsecchi, then you can enjoy a challenge: riddles and enigmas to let you live an adventure in the rooms of the mansion. To...
A Dream Made in Milan (Orhan Pamuk; in Italian)
Un sogno fatto a Milano. Dialoghi con Orhan Pamuk intorno alla poetica del museo (‘A Dream Made in Milan. Dialogues with Orhan Pamuk About the Poetics of Museums’) brings together observations by art historians, museologists and critics of contemporary art...
Choir stalls and tabernacles in Verbano between the 16th and 17th centuries: New Voices (in Italian)
On March 26th, the 2017-2018 “New Voices” series of conferences will close with a look at wooden sculpture between the 16th and 17th centuries — especially looking at choir stalls and tabernacles in the area of Verbano — during the transition...
A visit to City Life (in Italian)
The Futurists called Milan “the city that rises.” They would have loved City Life, a site-in-progress where we can appreciate the most ambitious forms of the modern architecture of today and of the future. We will see how the biggest archistar of our day...
Federico Agnelli, engraver and printer (in Italian)
The “New Voices” conference series continues with the contribution of Giulia Ghezzi, introduced by Rossana Sacchi, who will present the fascinating history of Federico Agnelli (1626-1702), engraver and head of a family of printers in Milan in the 17th...
Gaudenzio Ferrari in Santa Maria della Pace, Milan (in Italian)
“New Voices,” the series of conferences by young art historians of the State University of Milan, returns. The first encounter is held by Agostino Allegri, presented by Giovanni Agosti, and will be dedicated to the work of Gaudenzio Ferrari, an artist and...
March 8: International Women’s Day
On the 8th of March, International Women’s Day, all women can enter the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum for the reduced price of €6.00. Free audio guides and information in all rooms are available in English.
Theatrical readings from works of Orhan Pamuk: Mauro Avogadro (in Italian)
Mauro Avogadro will do a theatrical reading in Italian of portions taken from Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence. Before the reading, it will be possible to visit the exhibit Love, Museums and Inspiration. Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence in Milan from...
Aperitif in Costume 2018
Spectacular masks and a Renaissance atmosphere are always right at home at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum. The most-awaited event of the year returns: the Aperitif in Costume 2018. An evening for young damsels and knights to experience a timeless dream. Though the...
Museum of Decorative Arts, Milan: a visit (in Italian)
Located in some rooms of the Ducal court on the first and second floors of the Rocchetta in the Sforza Castle, the Museum of Decorative Arts is one of the most important collections of this type existing in Italy. It documents, in fact, the evolution of taste and...