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.
Thursday 13th October
16.00-hour 17.00.
Glass collection of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Via Gesù, 5, 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://museobagattivalsecchi.org/)
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Glass collection from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century.
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a house museum resulting from an extraordinary collector's event of the late nineteenth century, which has two brothers as protagonists: the barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi. Starting from the XNUMXs, the two brothers dedicated themselves to the renovation of the family home located in the heart of Milan: a building between via Gesù and via Santo Spirito, today in the center of the fashion district. At the same time, they began to collect XNUMXth-XNUMXth century paintings and artifacts of applied art with the intention of setting them up in their home so as to create a dwelling inspired by XNUMXth-century Lombard homes.
In line with the domestic style of the Bagatti Valsecchi set-up, the glass collection is set up within the windows of the dining room; the artifacts are arranged next to ceramic plates and risers creating a dense score, where works from different eras are freely juxtaposed in the name of decorative effectiveness. The predilections of the two brothers are oriented towards the Murano production, represented by glass that is arranged along a wide chronological span, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
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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