Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
4.5
1:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
1:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Thursday
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Friday
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 5:45 PM
Sunday
10:00 AM - 5:45 PM
About
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a historic house museum that exquisitely expresses an extraordinary adventure of collecting at the end of the 19th century. The protagonists were two brothers: the Barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi.
Duration: 1-2 hours
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Neighborhood: Centro Storico
The pulsating core of Milan is in Centro. Duomo Square is enclosed by the gothic cathedral, the historic icon of Milan. However, shopping is what draws most crowds to this area. The classy and versatile Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II with luxury boutiques and high quality restaurants will turn any shopping or lunch expedition into a royal experience. Head to the rooftop of the flagship La Rinascente to enjoy the view of the animated square with a panorama of the Duomo. The Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is the street for high-end shopping. Brands of all kinds and street artists attract the attention of all visitors; while at Via Santa Radegonda 16, Luini Panzerotti is a much appreciated street food shop providing unimaginable culinary experiences. If shopping takes its toll on you, consider visiting Castello Sforzesco, a 15th century castle housing several museums. Those looking to relax can go to Parco Sempione, where nature provides respite from the energy of this dynamic and international city.
How to get there
- Montenapoleone • 3 min walk
- San Babila • 5 min walk
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- Massimiliano PNovara, Italy47,284 contributionsBeautiful house museum in the center of MilanThe Bagatti Valsecchi museum is a Renaissance-inspired house museum set up inside the historic family residence, located in the center of Milan, in a side street of Via Montenapoleone. The visit to the museum is divided into fifteen rooms in which furnishings, paintings, sculptures, weapons and armor and an infinite number of various period objects are visible, collected over years of fervent collecting activity by the two brothers who owned the building at the end Nineteenth century. For those who wish, there is an audio guide in different languages that can be downloaded from the site, alternatively rather detailed information sheets are present in each room. A visit that is certainly pleasant and interesting even if the rooms are poorly lit.Visited January 2024Traveled soloWritten April 6, 2024
- TOPIS-TRho, Italy4,295 contributionsInterestingInteresting experience. The house museum is located in a very central area within the fashion quadrilateral. Too bad it has a trendy restaurant underneath and always full of people and confusion. The rooms of the house are interesting.Visited April 2024Traveled as a coupleWritten April 7, 2024
- Goffredo61 contributionsAn unforgettable journeyHighly recommended for those who want to enter the history of this family, through a rich journey between nineteenth and Renaissance Italy... a truly engaging and absolutely unique experience. The spirit of the two brothers and their family is always present to accompany you, with noble discretion. Recommendation to equip yourself with the earphones of your phone to accompany the visit with the excellent free audio guides downloadable from the museum site. Very kind all the staff and reception, a special thanks to Mr. Andrea.Visited September 2024Traveled soloWritten September 8, 2024
- Donald KEdmonton, Canada1,178 contributionsA nice museum showing how rich people lived 100 years agoThe price of this museum was more reasonable than others in the area. This is simply a former residence opened to the public as a museum. It reminded me of being a much smaller version of the Wallace Collection in London England. I wondered if some of the skulls were real. Check that out and let me know!Visited September 2024Traveled as a coupleWritten September 20, 2024
- Giorgio TCrema, Italy804 contributionsPrecious historic buildingAlthough the price of the €15 audio guide ticket seems prohibitive, the area to visit is very extensive, and each room has its own fascinating details. The palace, furnished with neoclassical taste, is rich in valuable works, and every corner holds interesting surprises. Perhaps the lighting should be improved, which sometimes does not enhance the architectural elements and works.Visited July 2024Traveled as a coupleWritten November 14, 2024
- JeRoBC24 contributionsPleasant discovery2 and a half hour visit. Very interesting from a historical and artistic point of view, unique in its kind. Rich collection well preserved. Clear and complete audio guide. Well maintained, clean and heated environments.Visited November 2024Traveled with friendsWritten November 18, 2024
- Solange FAncona, Italy11 contributionsA precious jewel, but not from Cartier!In the most famous and luxurious shopping street of Milan, in addition to the latest fashion designer clothes and the most iconic brands, there is a precious treasure chest of art and history, where you can wear the shoes of a collector of yesteryear, indeed two, lovers of the Renaissance to the point of recreating entire environments in style to be able to live immersed in it daily. A wonder from the lobby! The visit allows you to dive into the past in Renaissance art, in the history of this late 19th century house and the extraordinary family that designed and lived there. Thanks to the staff everything, an integral part of the visit experience, in particular to Andrea, very kind and, for the curious, guardian of small secrets of the house / museum.Visited January 2025Traveled soloWritten January 6, 2025
- Chiara ZeppeliMilan, Italy90 contributionsThe most beautiful house museum I have ever visitedIt's not the first time I've been to this museum, but years had passed since the last one. The Bagatti Valsecchi house museum is absolutely a jewel of Milan, unique in the world for its authenticity as a house museum. This is how its owners lived and how it is preserved for visitors. A rare beauty. The only flaw but that I caught only in this visit, the state of preservation of some works on display, in particular the large table with the Sacred Conversation. I hope they're restored soon.Visited January 2025Traveled soloWritten January 22, 2025
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Ray N
Bury St. Edmunds, UK1,274 contributions
Sep 2023 • Solo
What a great little museum this is. Two brothers have made there house into a house of the Renaissance period and it includes sculptures, paintings, furniture and even armour. I downloaded the guide by QR code and visited each room where an explanantion was given on your phone. This is well worth visiting if you are in the area near Montenapoleone metro stop. There are lots of high end designer shops close by.
Written October 1, 2023
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Marie-CĂ©cile C
Aix-en-Provence, France159 contributions
Jul 2022
Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
\This museum is a real treat if you like Italian Renaissance! This house was built by 2 brothers in the pure Renaissance Style. Beautiful paintings, furniture and objects.
Also if you want to visit this place and the 3 other house museums (villa Necchi Campliglio, Poldi Pezzoli and Casa Boschi di Stefano) you can purchase a card to visit all 4 via the Case Museo website. Great value for those visits
\This museum is a real treat if you like Italian Renaissance! This house was built by 2 brothers in the pure Renaissance Style. Beautiful paintings, furniture and objects.
Also if you want to visit this place and the 3 other house museums (villa Necchi Campliglio, Poldi Pezzoli and Casa Boschi di Stefano) you can purchase a card to visit all 4 via the Case Museo website. Great value for those visits
Written July 9, 2022
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Thank you for your great review, we are glad you enjoyed the visit!
Written July 15, 2022
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Gregory W
Mankato, MN3,817 contributions
Jun 2023
This was one of my favorite houses on the Milan house pass. It is out of the way and perfect because there were hardly anyone there in the middle of the day. It is a beauty and worth a visit. It will not disappoint. Get the house pass for the best value.
Written July 26, 2023
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Familien BL
Rungsted, Denmark99 contributions
Mar 2024 • Couples
We had a good time strolling through the excessively decorated rooms of this collector's residence - but didn't feel the urge for the full immersion.
The mansion is decorated with a combination of ceilings, panels etc, copied or moved from churches and the like. In addition, there are many things from the previous owners' collection of hundreds of years old caskets, vases and weapons.
The audio guide is on the web, but wasn't working the day we were there, so consider finding a podcast or article about the place beforehand. Without background info, this remained the dark living room of a couple of rich collectors, with a hodgepodge of things.
The mansion is decorated with a combination of ceilings, panels etc, copied or moved from churches and the like. In addition, there are many things from the previous owners' collection of hundreds of years old caskets, vases and weapons.
The audio guide is on the web, but wasn't working the day we were there, so consider finding a podcast or article about the place beforehand. Without background info, this remained the dark living room of a couple of rich collectors, with a hodgepodge of things.

Written March 3, 2024
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Airborne503
Raleigh, NC176 contributions
Nov 2023 • Solo
Im a tough grader so I gave it 3 Stars but this was a very good and interesting museum with both genuine antiques and those made in the late 1800 and 1900 hundreds both labeled properly. The house was decorated and designed with the Renaissance in mind which happens to be my favorite time period. Beautiful and well displayed collection.
I’d only recommend to those interested either the renaissance or 18th / 19th century Italian high society houses.
I’d only recommend to those interested either the renaissance or 18th / 19th century Italian high society houses.
Written December 1, 2023
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The Honest Traveler
Mexico City, Mexico13 contributions
Jul 2014 • Solo
I think there isn't a similar place in the world! Renaissance styled residence built in the XIX century, located at the heart of Milan's fashion district it has an amazing art and furniture collection, the mansion had been inhabited until 1975 so every corner is in pristine conditions. It also has a very complete audio-guide system (included in the ticket fee). Staff are extremely friendly as most of them are volunteers. I would recommend people to buy the "Case museo" card for €15.00 in order to be able to visit other 4 museums for a better price. http://www.casemuseomilano.it/en/
Written July 31, 2014
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irmszr
Istanbul, TĂĽrkiye2 contributions
Feb 2013 • Solo
Beautiful collection, very well preserved and exhibited. Especially the armor room was impressive.
Audio guide is detailed and informative.
Audio guide is detailed and informative.
Written April 29, 2013
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Fabian_vK
Stuttgart, Germany15 contributions
Nov 2012 • Couples
Stepping from the 21st century bustle in the middle of the most famous shopping area in Milan into the peaceful beauty of the Renaissance. In the 19th century the wealthy Bagatti Valsecchi brothers turned their home into a private Renaissance Palazzo. Their family continued to live their up to the late 20th century. Then they moved just across Via San Spirito into their slightly smaller 2nd Palazzo. In 1994 the larger Palazzo was converted into a museum showing in great detail how a wealthy Milanese family lived in the 19th century. It's so exquisitely presented that you expect the former owners to walk in at any minute. This palazzo is charming and a great place to feel like you are really in a Milanese home. The audio guide explains what you are seeing and occasionally you hear the last owner's voice telling you about his live there.
The entrance ticket is 8 euros and includes an audio guide in several languages as well as info cards in each room. You won't regret you visit and can easily spend a whole day there!
One of the courtyards and parts of the ground floor now house the good and expensive deli and restaurant "Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone".
The entrance ticket is 8 euros and includes an audio guide in several languages as well as info cards in each room. You won't regret you visit and can easily spend a whole day there!
One of the courtyards and parts of the ground floor now house the good and expensive deli and restaurant "Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone".
Written January 14, 2013
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Lutgarde V
Ankara, TĂĽrkiye68 contributions
Apr 2018 • Couples
Together with the Poldi-Pezzoli museum one of the less known museums. Small but worth visiting, also walking distance from the duomo. A renaissance palace belonging to two brothers who spent their life collecting furniture and art. It has still a "home" feeling ...Excellent English signage in every room (also a few other languages). It doesn't take hours to visit but it's a little change from all the fashion shops in the neighbourhood...
Written May 3, 2018
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Thanks to your review Lutgarde!
Written May 4, 2018
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35yrdream
Perth, Australia271 contributions
Oct 2014 • Solo
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, is a really interesting social establishment. The wealthy brothers Bagatti Valsecchi born in the mid 1800s had a radical idea, what if we were to furnish a house from the mid 1800s in a Renaissance style while living there. They set about cleverly collecting, re assembling and building things that showcased Renaissance value and made them into items that look like Renaissance originals but without sacrificing the luxury that the 1800s could offer. The outcome is really worth a look.
As you wander through the rooms, it’s difficult to take in all the subtleties. The colours, the fabrics, the embellishments, the furniture, the decoration; there is so much to absorb. It’s like being in your favourite shop and not knowing what to look at first.
The house is divided into three sections; each brother had their private suites with the third area being shared.
Your tour starts via the main staircase and into Fausto’s suites.
• At the top of the stairs is a small room, which then leads into Room of the Fresco, this looks like a chapel.
• The Room of the Fresco is a light airy room with a large fresco on one wall. The ceiling is carved wood panelling.
• The Bevilaqua room oozes opulence. The walls are covered with a flock material wallpaper, the doorframes are very intricately carved, and there are a number of paintings (some of which get lost in the wallpaper design) but the 15C painting of Madonna and Child does holds its own.
• The library, the stand out pieces here are two globes, one celestial the other of the world.
• Fausto’s bedroom is called the Room of Valtellinese bed, after the huge wooden carved bed. Above the bed is a triptych of large paintings. The ceiling is amazing, being carved with recessed niches which are painted in strong colours and then gilded in parts. There’s a clock in the form of a skull – an interesting piece.
• Fausto’s bathroom – the wash stand and bath are fitted with hot and cold plumbed water, but you would never know looking at it. Very ingenious!
The shared rooms:
• The first being grand marble and bronze staircase, on the way up the stairs notice the windows with their circular panes of glass.
• Between Fausto and Guiseppe’s rooms there’s a modern walk in room holding a collection of more personal items. Here displayed in drawers that can be opened are items that give you a sense of who these people were. There’s crockery designed with the family logo, hats belonging to the brothers, family photos.
• The cupola gallery houses a huge collection of paintings and ceramics.
• As a counter balance the gallery along the other side of the house, holds and amazing non firearms collection, meaning that everything here is before guns were invented. There are swords, shields and armour.
• The Grand Salon is a huge entertaining room that has real warmth about it.
• The Dining Room has tapestries on the walls.
• The two tone marble study floor suggests wealth along with the heavy business like furniture.
• There is another grand staircase which in the original concept of the house would have allowed the two families to come and go with interruption to the other. This has an ornate basin (at least I think it’s a basin).
Giuseppe and his wife Caroline’s rooms start with:
• The room of the Valtellinese Stove, this room has a fireplace along with a keyboard instrument (I’m not sure if it’s a piano or organ). It’s like a sitting room.
• The Red Room, the marital bedroom. The bed here is very ornate. A large canopied four post bed made from wrought iron that has been gilded, with an amazing foot end. On the walls are a number of rich paintings. Also within the room is a collection of children’s furniture.
• The green room, this is Giuseppe’s private room, furnished in an understated manner in contrast to his brother’s bedroom and the marital bedroom.
What is remarkable about Bagatti Valsecchi is that it was a private home with a family living here and using all that is in the house until 1974.
I was alone for most of my visit. I really enjoyed this museum and spent 2 hours there.
Really nice staff.
Audio guide included in ticket price. The guide is very comprehensive and narrated by a family member who grew up here and was one of the last to leave this residence in 1974.
Photography OK without a flash.
Closed Mondays and only open in the afternoon. Check website for opening times and entrance costs.
As you wander through the rooms, it’s difficult to take in all the subtleties. The colours, the fabrics, the embellishments, the furniture, the decoration; there is so much to absorb. It’s like being in your favourite shop and not knowing what to look at first.
The house is divided into three sections; each brother had their private suites with the third area being shared.
Your tour starts via the main staircase and into Fausto’s suites.
• At the top of the stairs is a small room, which then leads into Room of the Fresco, this looks like a chapel.
• The Room of the Fresco is a light airy room with a large fresco on one wall. The ceiling is carved wood panelling.
• The Bevilaqua room oozes opulence. The walls are covered with a flock material wallpaper, the doorframes are very intricately carved, and there are a number of paintings (some of which get lost in the wallpaper design) but the 15C painting of Madonna and Child does holds its own.
• The library, the stand out pieces here are two globes, one celestial the other of the world.
• Fausto’s bedroom is called the Room of Valtellinese bed, after the huge wooden carved bed. Above the bed is a triptych of large paintings. The ceiling is amazing, being carved with recessed niches which are painted in strong colours and then gilded in parts. There’s a clock in the form of a skull – an interesting piece.
• Fausto’s bathroom – the wash stand and bath are fitted with hot and cold plumbed water, but you would never know looking at it. Very ingenious!
The shared rooms:
• The first being grand marble and bronze staircase, on the way up the stairs notice the windows with their circular panes of glass.
• Between Fausto and Guiseppe’s rooms there’s a modern walk in room holding a collection of more personal items. Here displayed in drawers that can be opened are items that give you a sense of who these people were. There’s crockery designed with the family logo, hats belonging to the brothers, family photos.
• The cupola gallery houses a huge collection of paintings and ceramics.
• As a counter balance the gallery along the other side of the house, holds and amazing non firearms collection, meaning that everything here is before guns were invented. There are swords, shields and armour.
• The Grand Salon is a huge entertaining room that has real warmth about it.
• The Dining Room has tapestries on the walls.
• The two tone marble study floor suggests wealth along with the heavy business like furniture.
• There is another grand staircase which in the original concept of the house would have allowed the two families to come and go with interruption to the other. This has an ornate basin (at least I think it’s a basin).
Giuseppe and his wife Caroline’s rooms start with:
• The room of the Valtellinese Stove, this room has a fireplace along with a keyboard instrument (I’m not sure if it’s a piano or organ). It’s like a sitting room.
• The Red Room, the marital bedroom. The bed here is very ornate. A large canopied four post bed made from wrought iron that has been gilded, with an amazing foot end. On the walls are a number of rich paintings. Also within the room is a collection of children’s furniture.
• The green room, this is Giuseppe’s private room, furnished in an understated manner in contrast to his brother’s bedroom and the marital bedroom.
What is remarkable about Bagatti Valsecchi is that it was a private home with a family living here and using all that is in the house until 1974.
I was alone for most of my visit. I really enjoyed this museum and spent 2 hours there.
Really nice staff.
Audio guide included in ticket price. The guide is very comprehensive and narrated by a family member who grew up here and was one of the last to leave this residence in 1974.
Photography OK without a flash.
Closed Mondays and only open in the afternoon. Check website for opening times and entrance costs.
Written September 29, 2015
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Salve vorrei sapere se per accedere alla visita di questa casa museo nel giorni sabato o domenica c'è parecchia fila. Grazie
Written November 20, 2019
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
Milan, Italy
Buongiorno,
nel weekend c'è maggiore affluenza, ma non coda. Le 13 e le 15 sono i momenti di maggiore affluenza.
Ti aspettiamo!
Written November 21, 2019
Buongiorno è possibile fotografare? cosa c'è da viatare all'inetrno grazie
Written July 21, 2018
Noi ci siamo stati ad aprile e si poteva fotografare, senza flash
Written July 21, 2018
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