Museo Bagatti Valsecchi

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a house-museum, the result of an extraordinary collector's affair at the end of the 19th century, whose protagonists are two brothers: Barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi.
Beginning in the 1880s, the two brothers devoted themselves to the renovation of the family home located in the heart of Milan, now in the centre of the fashion quadrilateral, and began collecting 15th- and 16th-century paintings and artefacts of applied art with the intention of displaying them in their home in order to create a dwelling inspired by 16th-century Lombardy.
It was an incredibly up-to-date project, not least because of their desire to concentrate everything futuristic in the world of the time - heating, running water and electric light - in their home and to bring it together with the ultimate in refinement.
After Fausto and Giuseppe's death, the Bagatti Valsecchi house continued to be inhabited by their heirs until 1974, the year in which the Bagatti Valsecchi Foundation was established, to which the heritage of works of art collected by the two brothers was donated. Twenty years later, in 1994, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum opened to the public, one of the best preserved house museums in Europe and one of the first great expressions of Milanese design.
Preserved in accordance with the 19th-century layout, the collections of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum unfold from room to room: important antique paintings by authors such as Giovanni Bellini, Bernardo Zenale, and Giampietrino find their place in the enveloping rooms of the museum house alongside pastille caskets, wooden furniture, and glass or ceramic artefacts.