The hidden modernity
A piano in a cabinet, a shower behind carved wood.
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In idea yes: both are nineteenth-century collectors' houses turned museums, five minutes' walk apart โ and both fit one afternoon for anyone who likes the genre.
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The house of two brothers who lived as if in the sixteenth century: Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi built their home in the Montenapoleone quarter in the 1880s and furnished it entirely with genuine Renaissance pieces they bought, alongside new pieces made deliberately in sixteenth-century style so that the two could not be told apart. The result is a real dwelling โ they lived here with their families โ that looks like a Renaissance palace: a library of manuscripts, an armoury, paintings by Giovanni Bellini and Giambattista Moroni, carved beds, and a kitchen and bathroom disguised behind wooden fronts to hide their modernity โ the detail visitors love: a piano concealed in a cabinet, a shower behind a carved door. It remained in the family until 1974 and became a museum in 1994 exactly as it stood. Two minutes from Via Montenapoleone, it is among Milan's quietest and least crowded museums.
A piano in a cabinet, a shower behind carved wood.
Saint Justina in the bedroom.
Via Gesรน 5, Milan