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Born in 1998;Naturalistic and Paleontological Museum of San Daniele Po;Cremona;is an important element into cultural landscape of the Province.Collections show interesting remains of glacial fauna;like bison;mammuth;giant deer and other species.The most important fossil is the frontal bone of a Neanderthal man;at present the only fossil of this species discovered in Po Valley.Wide space is dedicated to human evolution;with a great collection of important models of hominids.As a consequence;the new name of the Museum will be Paleo-anthropological Museum of Po river.
In the Rocca Sforzesca;the seat of military arts;the Torrione houses a collection of local Associazione Combattenti e Reduci and by private collectors.The different objects give a cross-section of wartime eventsbetween the 19th and 20th centuries:side-arms;fire-arms;helmets;medals;clothes ( caps;small envelopes;uniforms;including the relics belonged to a Garibaldian volunteer dating back to the Risorgimento ) and military identification belongings ( badges and collar badges ).War and prison life:documents;letters;jobs;requiring;a great dealof patience carried out in prison and pictures provide evidence of the reality and repercus-sions of war.
The Museum;opened in 1988;is located in a building dating back to the 15th century.Didactic demonstrations give an overview of the fascinating world of books and printing and of the typographic technique used - beginning with the invention of movable types in the 15th century.The Museum is dedicated to the Soncino family of Jewish printers;which was active in the duchy of the Sforzas between 1483 and 1490 and produced valuable editions;mainly in Hebraic;among which the first edition of the Hebraic Bible completed with vowel signs.Later the Soncinos moved to other Italian towns;they also printed texts in Latin and Italian and then they migrated to the East;to Salonicco and Istambul.The Museum offers evidence of the ancient typographic art:it shows the functioning of a printing machine;illustrates the composition of the page elements with movable types;the inking and printing processes.Printing machines going back to the 18th and 19th centuries;in-depth studies of Jewish printing;original prints and reprints and a didactic video complete the exhibition.The Museum also houses didactic lithography workshops and temporary exhibitions.
In the 1818 Pietro Monti;throwster;came to Abbadia Lariana from Milan.He transformed the old building for felting wool into a place for the production of silk.In 1869 he enlarged the building and he added a new one for the spinning of cocoon;the first of the two spinning machines was demolished and in its place three rectangular spinning machines were built.The second circular spinning machine;which hadn't been working since 1934;was bought by the Abegg family.It was dismantled and offered to the Technorama Museum of Winterhurt in the 1965.Throwing activity lasted until 1934.After a period of standstill and degradation;the town council of Abbadia bought the building in 1978.The works of restoration of buildings and of the spinning machine started in 1981;though passing through several hard moments.The circular spinning machine of 1818 can still work.In the 1998 the Museo Setificio Monti was finally opened.The museum is composed by the Monti complex:the spinning machine of 1818 and the spinning mill of 1869.The complex is composed by 2 buildings;one with the spinning machine-winder;the other one with the spinning mill and its activities.Before the restoration works started;there were nothing left of spinning mill building;while there were still the three rectangular spinning machines and 15% of the circular spinning machine.Besides the ruins of same auxiliary machine;there are two hydraulic wheels with the irrigation ditch.
Instituted in the early 1900s;the Museum presents and recalls the history of the Bolognini Family and of the Sant'Angelo Lodigiano Castle.It exhibits furniture;paintings and objects that testify to the passion of this family for collecting began in the late '600.
From the important original collections;a first part was given in 1865 to the City of Milan to form the primitive core of the "Civic Art Collections of the Castello Sforzesco".In 1933;with the establishment of the Foundation Morando Bolognini;furniture and furnishings in the Castle would become the "Museum Morando Bolognini" in Sant'Angelo Lodi.Then;in 1945;the remainder of the collection of art;together with the Morando Bolognini palace in Via Sant'Andrea in Milan;was donated to the City of Milan;where it is currently exhibited as a "Museum of Milan".
Among the 24 rooms lavishly furnished in the style of "House-Museum;are of particular interest the Library;which houses about 2000 volumes e weapons room;consisting of around 500 pieces of various ages and proveniences.Worthy of note are the Throne Room;the Hall of Ancestors;a Chapel;a Hall of Mirrors and the Dining rooms.
Its constitution was proposed on the occasion of the centenary (1971) of the Faculty of Agriculture of Milan and it was promoted by scientists of the four universities of Milan and at first (1979) developed by Giuseppe Frediani;with the assistance of Gaetano Forni;AIMA-UNESCO museologist;who then completed it.With the collaboration of the Centre for Territorial Museology;it is articulated in eco-museum;embracing ten historical farmsteads and fifteen monumental buildings insistent on the territory that extends from Sant'Angelo Lodigiano to San Columban al Lambro.In 2007 he was officially recognized by the Lombardy Region Museum.
The aim of the museum is to make visitors aware of the profound significance of agriculture as a millennial evolution of the symbiosis between man and the environment.It is set according to ethno-historical and archaeological principles;the multiple sections are marked according to the periodization based on the sequence of technological and agricultural revolutions that have characterized the history of agriculture.A large emphasis is given to traditional agriculture Lodi.
The Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea is housed in the 17th-century Villa Ghirlanda in Cinisello Balsamo;a town located a few kilometres outside Milan.As Italy's first public museum devoted to contemporary photography and technologically generated images in general;its activities are aimed at promotion;study and dissemination with particular emphasis on the significance of the technological transformations underway and the relationship between photography and the other forms of expression.There is also an educational department with a broad range of initiatives aimed at the general public.
The collections comprise a total of about 2;000;000 images by some 800 Italian and foreign photographers and provide an illuminating overview of national and international photography since the end of World War II with a particular focus on the contemporary period.Important themes such as the transformation of the present-day landscape;portraiture;social photography and artistic investigations are also addressed.
A specialized library of approximately 12;000 books and yearly volumes of magazines is available to the public.
The City Museum "Museo Civico di Legnano" - recognized in 2004 by the regional institution "Regione Lombardia" - is the result of the passionate researches pursued by its founder;Guido Sutermeister.In the years between 1924 and 1964 he collected;studied and preserved the historical and artistic memories of the town and the neighbouring area.
The building;erected in 1928;reproduces the plan of the fifteenth-century summer residence of the Lampugnani Family from Milan;and shows wooden coffered ceilings;columns under the Portico and various both internal and external decorations.
Under the Portico there are stony artefacts of ancient and late-ancient age (I-V century A.D.) and mantelpieces of the XIV-XVI century.On the ground floor the exhibition "Antichi silenzi" shows the finds discovered in Parabiago (I century B.C.-II century A.D.).In the small room on the first floor there is the "Sala Collection" with finds from Greece;Magna Graecia;Etruria and the Roman Empire (IX century B.C.-III century A.D.).In the "Main Salon" are exposed three big paintings by Gaetano Previati displaying the "Battle of Legnano".In the so called "Little Loggia" room there are local archaeological finds ordered by chronology (2500 B.C.-700 A.D.) and tomb-context;along with a valuable coins collection (V century B.C.- XVIII century A.D.).
Museo Mangini Bonomi is a house museum that reflects the distinctive features of a generous Milanese;passionate collector of everyday items ("private life;work;pastimes");from ancient up to recent times.
Following the paths of collecting;Emilio Mangini traveled all over Europe discovering those thousand of objects from the past;gathered together within the space of decades;that nowadays;thanks to his generous donation;constitute the "Emilio Carlo Mangini Foundation".
To his son Giuseppe Mangini;man of vast knowledge and passionate archeologist;is due the choice of the building where the foundation is based;at 20 via dell'Ambrosiana;and the enrichment of the collections.
The heterogeneous and varied set of objects and furnishings gathers together remarkable groups of cases;playing cards;ancient arms;shaving washbowls and more;layed out in a real private dwelling to be visited from basement (corresponding to the Roman period ground line) up to all upper levels.
Founded in 1955;the Gallery of Contemporary Religious Art is the first museum of its kind in Italy and among the firsts in the world.It was founded by Dandolo Bellini;a painter and collector;in the halls of eighteenth-century Villa Clerici (Milan) in the Casa di Redenzione Sociale;an institute dedicated to the recovery of children in distress;with the dual task of educating through art and fundraising.The Gallery was repeatedly visited by Giovanni Battista Montini;Milan's archbishop;who here said that he "had reconciled with modern art".The experience of Montini at Villa Clerici is the basis of the turn made by him as Pope Paul VI in the relationship between the Church and contemporary artistic expressions;culminated with the opening of the Gallery of Modern Art in the Vatican Museums;to whose creation he called Bellini himself.The list of the artists includes Libero Andreotti;Dina Bellotti;Floriano Bodini;Ettore Calvelli;Felice Carena;Aldo Carpi;Virginio Ciminaghi;Silvio Consadori;Pericle Fazzini;Trento Longaretti;Francesco Messina;Luciano Minguzzi;Lello Scorzelli;Alberto Sughi;Valentino Vago;Giuseppe Zigaina.
Le statue raffiguranti i santi patroni delle maggiori corporazioni fiorentine;originariamente collocate nei tabernacoli all'esterno di Orsanmichele;sono esposte;dopo essere state restaurate e sostituite da copie;nel grande salone al primo piano dell'edificio;cui si accede attraverso il passaggio sopraelevato che lo unisce al Palazzo dell'arte della Lana.In gran parte realizzate nel secondo decennio del Quattrocento;le statue di Orsanmichele rappresentano un documento fondamentale della scultura del Primo Rinascimento;cui contribuirono tra gli altri Donatello;Lorenzo Ghiberti;Nanni di Banco e Andrea del Verrocchio.All'ultimo piano dell'edificio sono conservate sculture gotiche riferibili ad Andrea Orcagna.
The "Museo d'Arte e Scienza" was opened in 1990 under the name "Musei Didattici" (Teaching Museums).The Museum's founder was Gottfried Matthaes;a German physicist belonging to a family of longstanding artistic tradition;who died last year at the age of 90.At the end of World War II he inherited the teaching collections used by the school of painting founded in Dresden in 1906 by the Matthaes-Kurau couple.Being himself an avid art lover and collector;Matthaes decided to acquire exhibition space in the Palazzo Bonacossa;just opposite the Sforzesco Castle;where visitors can admire numerous antiques selected not for their beauty but for their didactic value with the aim of helping them to tell "fake" from authentic antiques.The Museum's own internal scientific laboratory also devotes itself to the ascertainment of the authenticity of art works and the dating of wooden artefacts;issuing certificates for public entities and private collectors alike.
Moreover;two of the Museum's rooms house a rich collection of Buddhist art objects entitled "East Asian Buddhist Art";and there is also an outstanding collection of African masks and sculptures (currently closed to the public for renovation work) constituting the second section dedicated to non-European cultures.The Museum has recently begun staging cultural events and series of conferences on specific themes;like the coming exhibition "Fragments of Japan";organized in collaboration between the association "Japan in Italy" and the association "Friends of the Museo d'Arte e Scienza".
Il Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano è stato fondato nel 1838;ed è uno dei più importanti musei naturalistici d'Europa.Il Museo aprì al pubblico nel 1844 in occasione del VI Congresso degli Scienziati Italiani che quell'anno svolgeva i suoi lavori a Milano.Scheletro di capodoglio.Fin dal primo regolamento del 1843 venne stabilito che il Museo impartisse pubbliche lezioni di scienze naturali;questa funzione didattica si rafforzò nel 1863 con l'apertura dei corsi per l'Istituto Tecnico Superiore (poi Politecnico di Milano) e nel 1875 con la partecipazione del Museo al Consorzio degli Istituti di Istruzione Superiore;articolata struttura formativa che diede origine nel 1924 all'Università degli Studi di Milano.Dal 1924 al 1938 ebbe sede in Museo la Facoltà di Scienze Naturali;Matematiche e Fisiche dell'Università Statale che;grazie ad una convenzione tra lo Stato e il Comune di Milano;poteva usufruire dei laboratori;delle collezione;della biblioteca e del personale scientifico del Museo di Storia Naturale per le attività didattiche e di ricerca.Nel 1943 l'incendio causato da un bombardamento aereo anglo-americano devastò il palazzo e distrusse buona parte delle collezioni.L'ingente lascito in denaro del medico milanese Vittorio Ronchetti permise la ricostruzione del Museo;riaperto al pubblico nel 1952;e la pianificazione di un programma di nuove acquisizioni al fine di ricostituire il patrimonio museale.Dal 1866 il Museo ospita la Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali;fondata nel 1857 come Società geologica residente in Milano.Il sodalizio scientifico portò nel 1893 alla cointestazione delle riviste scientifiche edite dalla Società e tuttora pubblicate insieme al Museo di Storia Naturale.Attualmente hanno sede presso il Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano anche il Gruppo Mineralogico Lombardo;il Gruppo Botanico Milanese e il Centro Studi Archeologia Africana.
Nato nel 1885;dal 1951 il museo ha sede nel settecentesco palazzo Moriggia;progettato nel 1775 da Giuseppe Piermarini a ridosso del vasto complesso di Brera.Già sede;in epoca napoleonica;del Ministero degli Esteri e;in seguito;del Ministero della Guerra;il palazzo;passato nel 1900 alla famiglia De Marchi;fu donato al Comune di Milano dalla moglie del celebre naturalista Marco De Marchi e in quell'occasione destinato a sede museale.Attraverso un articolato insieme di materiali composti da stampe;dipinti;sculture;disegni;armi e cimeli;le collezioni illustrano il periodo della storia italiana compreso tra la prima campagna di Napoleone Bonaparte in Italia (1796) e l'annessione di Roma al Regno d'Italia (1870).Il percorso espositivo è ordinato cronologicamente e si snoda attraverso quindici sale tematiche a cui si aggiungono due sale destinate alle esposizioni temporanee.L'ultimo allestimento risale al 1998 quando;mantenendo intatta la sequenza cronologica;furono ripensate le strutture espositive permanenti;destinate ai nuclei salienti delle collezioni;e in particolare i cimeli dell'incoronazione di Napoleone in Italia (il manto verde e argento e le preziose insegne regali);lo stendardo della Legione Lombarda Cacciatori a cavallo;il primo Tricolore italiano;per fare solo qualche esempio.In questa occasione sono stati riprogettati il sistema di illuminazione e il corredo didascalico;e recuperato il retrostante «Giardinetto romantico».;
The museum of the basilica of St Eustorgio is located on the site of the former Dominican convent.From the cloister one can reach the paleochristian cemetery;which contains an interesting collection of epigraphs.Proceeding further we come to the Chapter room and the ancient sacresty and further on to the PORTINARI Chapel;with the frescoes by Vincenzo Foppa ( 1464-68).A collection of paintings present various examples of the Milanese works ranging from Mannerism to Neoclassicism.Some sculptures;the 12th century statue of St Eugene and the 17th century wooden statues of St Dominic and of St Peter the Martyr;complete the historic and artistic scene.The 15th century cabinets in the sacresty contain a collection of ceremonial silver plates;the saints' relics and what remains of the precious ornaments of the basilica.The purpose of the Parish Museum is to take the visitors through the thousand year history of the basilica from its very origins on an ancient necropolis to the triumph of Renaissance and the various restorations which took place in the 18th and 19th century.
The rich historic and spiritual patrimony of the convent and the basilica are inseparable from a close relationship with the parish community.The Portinari Chapel is not only a sublime work of art but is also a place of worship where the holy mass is celebrated.
The combined home and museum created by the Milanese collector Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli is known all over the world.
Poldi Pezzoli was born in Milan in 1822.His father Giuseppe inherited great wealth from both his father's family;the Poldi of Parma;and his mother's;the Pezzoli d'Albertone of Bergamo.Rosa Trivulzio;his mother;belonged to one of the oldest Milanese families with a long tradition of collecting;for which Gian Giacomo soon developed a passion.He began building up his extraordinary art collection in the 1840s;not only paintings (including masterpieces by Pollaiolo;Botticelli;Giovanni Bellini;Mantegna;Piero della Francesca;Tiepolo and Guardi) but also sculptures and important items of the decorative arts;armour and weapons;glassware;ceramics;jewellery;solar and mechanical clocks;carpets and furniture.
At the same time;Poldi Pezzoli used his money and energy in the refurbishment of his apartment in accordance with the taste of the age;calling in the leading artists and decorators for the purpose.This was the undertaking of a lifetime;which ended in 1879 with the collector's sudden death.The museum opened to the public in 1881 in accordance with his wishes.It is one of Italy's earliest artistic foundations and still maintains all the interest and atmosphere of a combined home and museum despite the damage suffered during World War II.In addition to the evocative historical rooms in the 19th-century style;visitors should take in those recently redesigned for display purposes;namely the weapons room designed by the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro (2000);the room of gold (2006) and the collector's room.
The strong ties that have always existed between the museum and collectors are demonstrated by a series of important donations over the years;including solar and mechanical clocks;lace and embroidery;drawings and paintings;china and netsuke.The museum organizes exhibitions;lectures;courses;concerts with ancient musical instruments and activities for schools and families.The aids available to the public include catalogues;educational publications;free audio guides for adults and children;and a museum shop.The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is on facebook and files can be downloaded from www.museopoldipezzoli.it for smartphones.
The story of the Museo Teatrale alla Scala started in 1911;when Duke Uberto Visconti di Modrone;Professor Lodovico Pagliaghi;the composer and librettist Arrigo Boito;the correspondent of Il Secolo Mr Borsa;Senator Mangili;Count Leopoldo Pullè and Gino (Ettore) Modigliani;director of the Pinacoteca di Brera gathered around a table of the Teatro alla Scala.
Who were these men? They were the most prominent people of Milan in those years.Most of them were exponents of the rich cultural community of the city and were connected to the Teatro alla Scala by their love and passion.The decision to be taken around that table concerned the purchase of the theatre collection belonging to the antique dealer Giulio Sambon that was going to be put up for auction in Paris on the very first days of May of the same year.Those antiques could have been the starting point of a huge theatre collection whose foundation had been sought for a very long time by the Milanese intellectual community close to La Scala;since the very first years of the century.
But the auction of the precious collection was forthcoming:how was it possible to find the necessary funds in one week only? With the help of the government and 50 citizens;who subscribed 5;000 liras of that time each;after a series of incredible adventures to wring the collection out of the American multimillionaire J.P.Morgan;the dream came true and the collection was then given to the city of Milan.
The Museum was officially inaugurated on 8 March 1913 with a solemn ceremony in the former Casino Ricordi connected to the Teatro alla Scala.Over the years numerous donations and purchases added to the Sambon collection;which is today one of the richest and most envied collections in the world.The most important deposits are in the "Casa di riposo per musicisti" (retirement-home for musicians) founded by Giuseppe Verdi;as well as in public places.The Museum also includes the Library;founded with its present structure with the 40;000 volumes given in 1952 by Renato Simoni;author and critic of the Corriere della Sera who wanted it to be dedicated to his mother Livia;and which is continuously enriched and updated.
Initiated in 1877 within the framework of Milan's municipal art museum;the Castello Sforzesco collections of applied art are what now remains of the project for a museum of industrial art.They constitute one of the richest;most significant and best-known sections of the Castello Sforzesco museum complex due to the presence of some masterpieces known throughout the world.We refer in particular to the excellence of the ivory sculptures;the examples of the goldsmith's craft;the fabrics and the tapestries (including the Trivulzio Tapestries of the Months).The collections of ceramics (over 6;000 items in earthenware;majolica and porcelain) and furniture are remarkable in both quantitative and qualitative terms.Attention should also be drawn to the collections of bronzes;leather items;artistic wrought iron and glassware.The exhibition of works is organized on the basis of technical typology with the exception the furniture section;where the various arts connected with cabinet-making over the ages are gathered together for synchronous display in an experimental installation entitled From the Sforza Dynasty to Design.
Winner of the Guggenheim award for the best corporate museum;guardian of many products;photographs;drawings and with an exhibition layout of 2500 mq and 1000 objects;Kartell Museum illustrates the amazing marriage of plastic and design from 1949 to the present day.
Founded by Claudio Luti in 1999 to celebrate Kartell's fiftieth anniversary;the museum is the custodian of one of the most fertile chapters in the history of Italian design.It illustrates a unique reality;animated by the constant by a "technological challenge" that characterises all the items on display.
The layout by Ferruccio Laviani;displaying car accessories;household goods;lamps;labware;furniture and furnishing accessories;covers an area of 2500 square metres in the Kartell plant designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri and Ignazio Gardella.The layout offers to the public the opportunity to admire and interpret the 1000 icon-objects since 1949 from different points of view.
Through guided tours;research;publications;and exhibitions and through its extraordinary collections and the archives;Kartell Museum aims to promote the culture of design to the public.