The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a house museum that is the result of an extraordinary story of late-19th-century collecting, featuring two brothers, the barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi. From the 1880s, the brothers focused on renovating their family home in the heart of Milan. At the same time, they also began to collect paintings and applied art objects from the 15th and 16th centuries in order to decorate the house. The brothers’ wish was to bring into their home everything that was futuristic in their period – heating, running water and electric lighting – and to combine it with settings of the utmost elegance. After the death of Fausto and Giuseppe, the Bagatti Valsecchi home continued to be lived in by their heirs, until 1974, when the Bagatti Valsecchi Foundation was established. Twenty years later, in 1994, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum was opened to the public, one of the best preserved museum houses in Europe.
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum has shown itself to be aware of and attentive to the needs of its visitors with disabilities. It has created an App in Italian and International Sign Language – the first case for an historic building or museum in the city of Milan – to allow deaf people as well as Italian and international users of sign language to enjoy the full experience of a “guided visit”. The App, which is extremely easy to use, also has texts of the content and subjects translated into Italian and International Sign Languages with some additional information.
Full price 9 euro / Reduced price 6 euro
Entry is free for carers of people with disabilities who purchase a ticket.
Museum Opening Times
The Museum is open from Tuesdays to Sundays from 13:00 to 17:45.
Please see the museum website for any changes and/or closures.
Please go to the ticket office to use the lift to access the first-floor rooms in the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum. There are also toilets available for persons with physical disabilities.
Max. wheelchair width: 70 cm
An App is available in Italian and International Sign Language. It is very simple to use: after downloading the app, visitors can use a drop-down menu to follow the suggested route through the museum, pausing or repeating the view of the room or section they are most interested in or, alternatively, they can select the individual rooms according to their preferred order.
