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 in two shifts:
Friday 14th October
- 14.00-hour 15.00
- 15.00-hour 16.00
Antique glass - Contemporary glass from the Bellini-Pezzoli Collection - Exhibition Brindisi of author al Sforza Castle Museum of Decorative Arts, Piazza Castello, Milan -
Guided tour by Fiorella Mattio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Applied Art Collections, Castello Sforzesco.
Free visit. Entrance to the Museum for a fee, according to current rates and agreements (https://www.milanocastello.it/)
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Antique glass - Contemporary glass from the Bellini-Pezzoli Collection - Exhibition Author's toast
In the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Castello Sforzesco there is a collection of almost 500 glasses from the fifteenth to the twentieth century (exhibited only in part), among which a Murano glass with the insignia of the Sforza, datable to the second half of the fifteenth century (one of the older pieces of this type and therefore of great historical and symbolic value), and a very important series of glass from the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, acquired directly at the Biennials and Triennials by the Municipality of Milan.
To these civic collections have recently been added 48 glass works from the Bellini-Pezzoli collection granted in five-year deposit by the owner, Sandro Pezzoli, and important testimony on the art and design of works made in glass starting from the XNUMXs.
Finally, specially extended on the occasion of VITRUM the dossier exhibition on twentieth century artist and design glasses Author's toast. Artist glasses from the Bellini-Pezzoli Collection which collects 166 glasses of the twentieth century, each different from the other in shape, technique and chromatic choice.
All guided tours are by AIHV - Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre | Italian Committee.
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