A journey to discover the Milanese museums and their glass collections: famous relics preserved in the museum spaces, true memory reservoirs that take us back through the centuries, putting us in close contact with the everyday life of time.
THEAssociation Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre it will accompany the visitor, involving and dragging him into previous historical periods like a time machine.
The guided tour will be organized as follows:
Wednesday October 6
17.00-18.00.
Glass collection from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century. of the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Via Manzoni 12, 20121 Milan -
Visit by Cristina Tonini, glass historian and councilor of the AIHV Italian National Committee
Free visit. Entrance to the Museum for a fee, according to current rates and agreements (https://museopoldipezzoli.it/)
RESERVATION MANDATORY, up to availability of seats: promotion@storiadelvetro.it
Glass collection
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum likes to define itself as “A treasure chest in the heart of Milan”. Open to the public in 1881, beloved by both the Milanese and the international public, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum enchants not only for the charm of the rooms, which evoke the eras of the past from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century up to the Armory reinterpreted by the contemporary artist Arnaldo Pomodoro, but also for the variety and richness of the collections. Masterpieces of painting, including the famous portrait of a young lady by Pollaiolo who has become its symbol), sculptures, carpets, lace and embroidery, weapons and armor, jewelry, porcelain, glass, furniture, solar and mechanical clocks: over 5000 objects extraordinary, from antiquity to the nineteenth century, immersed in a magical atmosphere.
About two hundred antique glasses belong to the collection, partly purchased by Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli and then enlarged by the first directors. The main nucleus is made up of Murano glass from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and well represents the different techniques of working and decorating glass in Venice. This is accompanied by archaeological, but also German and Bohemian pieces.
All guided tours are by AIHV - Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre | Italian Committee.
Via Lorenzo Mascheroni, 31 - 20145 Milan
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