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HDI Museum Visit: Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy – Part 2
We so enjoyed The Museo del Novecento in Milan and we promised a second Musings post on earlier works from their extensive collection of Italian Art and Sculpture. Our last post had more Contemporary works (you can click here to go back to see Part 1) and some of the best Milano views. Don’t miss t… Read More
HDI Museum Visit: Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy – Part 1
Another favorite museum on our recent trip to Italy was The Museo del Novecento, located inside the Palazzo dell’Arengario in Piazza del Duomo in Milan. Not only is this museum perfectly located for a visit, the collection includes over four thousand works that catalyze the development of 20th cen… Read More
HDI Museum Visit: Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
Another wonderful museum to visit is the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, also in Milan, Italy. The foundation was established in 1995 and was created to be a place of study and debate over the major issues and greatest contemporary avant-garde figures, and to act as a real cultural center, offering ex… Read More
HDI Museum Visit: Fondazione Piero Portaluppi, Milan, Italy
Another fun outing in Milan was the fascinating Fondazione Piero Portaluppi. Portaluppi was a Milanese architect, who was active from the 1910s to ’60s, Piero Portaluppi designed the Italian Pavilion for the Universal Exposition in 1929. After World War I, he went on to restore several of M… Read More
HDI Exhibition Tip: “Osvaldo Borsani” RETROSPECTIVE AT TRIENNALE DESIGN MUSEUM, Milan, Italy
While in Milan, we also visited the Triennale Design Museum. They currently show the first retrospective exhibition of the life and work of architect, designer and visionary Osvaldo Borsani, co-founder of TECNO . The exhibition, which runs until September 16th is curated and designed by Norman F… Read More
HDI Exhibition Tip: “FRIDA KAHLO. BEYOND THE MYTH” AT MUDEC, MILAN, ITALY
On a recent trip to Italy we visited the spectacular Museum of Culture of Milan, short MUDEC. The museum featured an extensive exhibition on the work of Frida Kahlo which was curated by Diego Sileo, curator of Milan’s Pac and a scholar of Latin American art. All the works exhibited came from t… Read More
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