Museo Bagatti Valsecchi – Palaces of Milan’s nobility
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, open to the public since 1994, is one of the most important and best-preserved house museums in Europe.
It is a private foundation set up by the heirs of Bagatti Valsecchi in 1974 to display public collections of Renaissance art and Renaissance and Renaissance decorative arts collected in the last decades of the 19th century by the brothers Fausto and Giuseppe to enrich their. own house.
The Museo Bagatti Valsecchi is a museum house created as a result of an extraordinary late nineteenth-century collection whose protagonists are two brothers: the Barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi.
Starting in the 1880s, the two brothers devoted themselves to renovating the family home located in the heart of Milan: a building between Via Gesù and Via Santo Spirito, today at the centre of the fashion quarter quadrangle. At the same time, the two brothers began collecting applied arts and artefacts from the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries with the intention of installing them in their home, to create a house inspired by 16th-century houses.
An incredibly relevant project, thanks in part to the brothers’ desire to concentrate everything that could be futuristic in the world of time – heating, plumbing and electric lighting – in their home and make it as refined as possible.
After Fausto and Giuseppe’s deaths, the Bagatti Valsecchi house continued to be inhabited by heirs until 1974, when the Bagatti Valsecchi Foundation was established, to which a legacy of artworks collected by the two brothers was given.
Twenty years later, in 1994, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum opened to the public, one of the best-preserved museum houses in Europe and one of the first great expressions of Milanese design.
