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MUDEC - MUSEO DELLE CULTURE
Milano - Via Tortona, 56
Historic site of Milan industrial park in the last century, the original
structure of Ansaldo area covers approximately 70.000 square meters
between streets Bergognone, Tortona, Savona and Stendhal. Its
construction dates back to 1904, when the companies Zust, AEG and,
subsequently, the Galileo Ferraris opened their plants and started
their activities, until the end of the ‘80s. In the ‘90s the area was
purchased by the Municipality of Milan with the aim of promoting
cultural events and make it a Citadel of culture.
The AreaMUDEC – Museo delle Culture
Activities
Mudec Junior
Training Courses
Events
Cultural entertainment
Exhibitions
Mudec Bistrot & Restaurant
Mudec Design Store
MudecMuseo delle Culture
Stecca
Plan of the area
Mudec MUSEO DELLE CULTURE
Museo delle Culture - Mudec has been built from an industrial area to become a centre of cultures, thanks to the intuition of the English
designer David Chipperfield, who signed the architectural project. The idea behind Chipperfield’project is to exploit the areas of connection
between the different blocks, creating a central covered square, whose polylobed shape emerges above the volumes of the museum like a
modern drum, made of opal glass and of a steel supporting structure. The 8600 square meters complex, spread over three levels in addition
to the two underground floors, consists of a set of modular buildings and houses the permanent collections of extra-European art belonging
to the Municipality of Milan and the Wunderkammer Settala.
In the building there are also an exhibition area of 1350 square meters dedicated to temporary exhibitions, a multipurpose auditorium,
educational rooms, warehouses, a shop, a bistro bar, a restaurant and events space, an ample parking area. Annex to the museum is the
Mudec Junior, a permanent structure used for educational purposes, addressed to children and young people, in partnership with the
Tropical Museum in Amsterdam, an institution at the forefront internationally in the field of education.
Educational room211.90 m² 28 Sitting places for adults54 Sitting places for children tables, pannels and fornituresfor didactic work2 Deposits equipped forpedagogical purposes (18.67m²; 18.30 m²)
Café425 m² Sitting places: 70 Bar counterincluding cash registerUtility RoomVertical exhibitors for Drink displays
Entrance hall437.31 m² Counter for:- Ticket service- Information- Audio guidesFixed sessionsInformation panels
Cloakroom 34.59 m²Automatic clothes hanging system (tot. 380 winter garments)Umbrella stand
Bookshop140 m²Horizontal display for books and objectsVertical display for books and objectsCash counterLounge area with chairs and tables
Supporting structures of the MuseumEntrance hall
Legend
PLAN – The ground floor
Auditorium295 m²Places: 180Removable platformConference tablesProjection screenPossible telescopic grandstand(removable Totem forlighting and audio in progress)
Exhibitions areasTemporary exhibitions1306 m²
AuditoriumTemporary exhibitionsCommon spaces
Central Hall Showcases Showcases designed to containexplanations of the concept of the Museo delle Culture,Introductions to the exhibition rooms locatedbehind and the agendaAuditorium70 m²
Legend
PLAN – First Floor
The Permanent Collection
The core of the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Cultures is formed by the ethnological collections of the City of Milan, comprising around 8,000 works of art, tools, textiles, musical instruments and valuable ethnographic material from the Far East, South and Central America, Western and Central Africa, South East Asia and Oceania, spanning a chronological arc from 1200 BC to the twentieth century.
The collections began to constitute an organic corpus in 1863, when the City Museum of Natural History (founded in 1838) instituted a register of Ethnographic Collections. When the seat of the City Museums was moved to the Castello Sforzesco in 1900, all of the ethnographic, historical and anthropological collections previously belonging to various public entities in Milan were gathered together at that site, in different stages: other than the City Museum of Natural History, these included the Archaeological Heritage Museum (1867) and the City Art Museum (1878). It was at the Castello Sforzesco that some of these collections were seriously damaged by bombardments in 1943.
For the first time since the post-war period, beginning on 28 October 2015, visitors can admire a selection of this valuable heritage in the rooms on the first floor of the Museum of Cultures, in an organic and carefully considered exhibitionpresenting a fully restored collection of material and the results of new, in-depth research that has revealed previously unknown aspects of numerous masterpieces, some of which are being displayed for the first time.
Grande statua sinotibetana
Picasso Femme nue
Bottiglia raffigurante un giaguaro
Elmo stravagante, kawari kabuto, o maschera
The Temporary Exhibitions GAUGUIN and the Primitive. PARADISE LOST.| 28 October 2015 – 21 February 2016
Curated by Flemming Friborg and Line Clausen pedersen.In collaboration with Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
The exhibition focuses on Gauguin’ sources (Peru, Egypt, the Middle Ages, Persia, Java, Cambodia, the graves in Denmark, Britainand, finally, Polynesia), through different artistic techniques and the most varied themes. The most relevant section of the exhibition will be devoted to the works of Polynesians subject and inspiration, with masterpieces from 1891 to 1903. The project consists of 80-100 masterpieces, paintings and sculptures, plus a number of Polynesian artifacts and documents of the different places visited by the artist.
BASQUIAT | fall 2016Curated by Francesco BonamiIn collaboration with LACMA Los Angeles, Gagosian NY, Hayward London
With over fifty works from public and private collections, the retrospective exhibition runs through the short but intense career of Basquiat, which ended with the premature death at the age of only twenty-seven.Twenty years after his first posthumous exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1992- 93), and ten years after the retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2005), this exhibition will show Basquiat’s central role in the generation of his peers artists and the function of his art as a bridge connecting different cultures, with particular attention to the melting pot of cultures that have formed the artist’s DNA.
BARBIE. The Icon | 28 October 2015 – 13 March 2016
Curated by Massimiliano CapellaIn collaboration with Mattel Italia and Mattel International
The exhibition aims to pay tribute to Barbie, pop icon, trendsetter, fashion icon and muse of many artists. Barbie is not only the ideal model for any designer but, through the many changes of style and physiognomy, tells the story of our time from the ‘50s to today. From simple toy to goddess of fashion, an exhibition that means to be symbolic and non didactic, to help people understand its enormous impact on the global imaginary as an emblem of modern culture.
Mirò| spring 2016
In collaboration with Juan Mirò Foundation
The exhibition aims to address a historical work of the Catalan artist after his transfer to Palma de Mallorca in the late ' 50s . The exhibition presents works of large sculptures is also a large photographic documentation, films and objects.
The Stecca, located opposite the entrance of the museum and overlooking Via
Tortona, spreads over several floors and will contain three important spaces:
• Mudec Junior, which is a museum entirely dedicated to children
• Mudec Academy 24, a Business School to all effects, able to host different
courses
• Innovation Center, a physical place where companies will have the opportunity
to display their innovations and, above all, a location for the organization of
large-scale events.
Spaces under concession:Net area, including the partitions
Ground floor 672 m²First floor 405 m²Total 1077 m²
The ProjectSTECCA
Museo delle Culture Junior227m²
THE PROJECT
Mudec Junior
The Museo delle Culture Junior will have a dedicated entrance from the
internal courtyard to a central reception. The spacious and bright
spaces are designed in open space in order to be flexible and host
recreational activities, thematic tours, film projections and theater
performances .
Reception16 m²
Training area389 m²
THE PROJECT
Mudec Academy 24
The training area is distributed along the inner facade with flexible
spaces containing study rooms and training rooms. Each space is
provided with movable walls or windows, reconfigurable and
acoustically suitable for use.
It is scheduled the construction of a service block, new flooring and
internal finishing works, beside all the interventions preparatory to
plant installations.
The Multipurpose Space consists of a single rectangular space and an open
floor plan without structural elements and internal subdivisions. The main
entrance is directly from the public space opposite the Museo delle Culture.
Lighting is provided by the double exposure to via Tortona and to the internal
courtyard.
It is conceived as an open space to maintain ample areas and is aimed to host
different kinds of events. The space could be sublet to a third party for
temporary or permanent events.
Multipurpose Space 445 m²
THE PROJECT
Mudec Innovation Center
Mudec RestaurantRESTAURANT AT THE THIRD FLOOR
Managed by the company Food 24, the MUDEC Restaurant is equipped to handle a diner’s every need. The cuisine is based on top quality raw
materials and a particular attention to their territorial and regional origin and it presents both typical dishes of the Italian cuisine and original
re-elaborations that blend local ingredients with ingredients from outside Europe, so as to adopt the intercultural philosophy that distinguishes
MUDEC.
Mudec Design Store aims to be a reference for contemporary design trends. It draws inspiration from the permanent collections of Museo delle Culture
and, in this sense, it is conceived as a Wunderkammer collecting new and spectacular items, which seem to come from a fantastic repertoire.
“Wonderful" objects from all around the world, with the aim to intrigue guests or visitors of the museum. Iconographic repertoire drawn from the
natural and animal world, old and new materials, craftsmanship and technology, a link between the recovery of traditions and new knowledge, masters
of design and emerging young artists. The classics of modern design will be on display, among which valued items of limited supply. Jewelry,
accessories, household items and tableware, furniture, books, music. There will be special editions realized with the brand Mudec.
Mudec Design Store WONDERFUL ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD
Museo delle Culture in Milano aims to be a cultural center that will host collections, exhibitions, events, seminars and workshops, to offer the opportunity of learning, exchange and intercultural education to different types of actors and public.
In order to create a wide and diversified offer, it was decided to open a space specifically dedicated to children (schools and families). MUDEC Junior will be hosted in the “Stecca“, in Via Tortona, at the entrance of MUDEC. It is a huge space devoted to temporary annual exhibitions, focused on specific geographical and cultural issues, which follow the well-established example of the Tropical Museum Junior: an experience still considered a "best practice" at the international level. The MUDEC junior will be opened in October 2015 with an exhibition related to the culture of Morocco. The exhibition is conceived as an immersive and experiential path declined in a number of areas/activities, that can be developed only through concrete collaboration with the Moroccan community and its institutions of reference in Italy and Morocco.
Mudec JuniorMUSEO DELLE CULTURE - EXHIBITION AREA FOR CHILDREN
24 Hours Culture is a company active for years in the organization of reserved and exclusive events for large companies in the most prestigious Italian
venues. Museo delle Culture is an ideal location for the organization of various kinds of events for companies and individuals. The building is in fact
organized to host a large audience and has ample functional spaces inside (café, auditorium, restaurant etc. In addition to the events, inside it is
possible to organize conferences, fashion shows, photo or film sets, art performances, parties for company anniversaries.
EventsMUDEC & STECCA
Department Fund raising, Events and Special Projects
Manager Chiara Giudice02 3022 3618
Coordinator Francesca Belli02 3022 3639 - 366 8545453
Letizia Rossi02 3022 3747 - 348 4920362
Massimo Navoni02 3022 3507 ‐ 334 3571520
Valentina Corio02 3022 3639
Giulia Mordivoglia02 3022 3426
Ilaria Villani02 3022 3833
Valentina Battarra02 49485090 - 338 5330160
Giulia Cini02 3022 3521