Milan, inaugurated the new ADI Design Museum that brings together the historic Compasso d'Oro award collection

Opened in Milan is theADI Design Museum - Compasso d’Oro, the new museum that brings together the historical collection of the Compasso d’Oro award, born in 1954 from an idea of Gio Ponti with the aim of enhancing design made in Italy. Managed by the Fondazione ADI Collezione Compasso d’Oro, established in 2001 by ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale, the museum venue aims to conserve and enhance what has been built up over the decades of the award’s activities: a national cultural heritage that has been recognized by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage as “of exceptional artistic and historical interest.”

In addition to the permanent collection, the museum will host in-depth temporary exhibitions, cross-disciplinary initiatives and meetings aimed at the general public, with the aim of contributing to the dissemination and enhancement of design nationally and internationally.

It covers an area of more than 5,000 square meters and occupies a historic site dating back to the 1930s, used as a horse-drawn streetcar depot and an electricity distribution plant, which has now been recovered thanks to the project curated by architects Giancarlo Perotta and Massimo C. Bodini, while Migliore + Servetto Architects with Italo Lupi oversaw the layout of the historical collection. The museum will have a bookshop, café and spaces for children’s workshops, but no physical ticket office: tickets can be purchased via app, website or on site by staff using special POS.

The inauguration was attended by Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, who expressed his joy at seeing a new museum open “projected toward innovation, so important and so beautiful.” “It is truly an extraordinary place, which collects the history of design and the foundation of the Compasso d’Oro,” he added, “but at the same time also projected towards the future, towards young talent. In a phase of restart, this museum is almost a symbol of restart not only for Milan but for the whole country. Since we decided on April 26 to reopen cinemas, theaters, museums and exhibitions, we are showing that it is possible to make culture by guaranteeing security measures, with great care and scrupulousness. I think they will be complicated months in many ways, but Italy in times of difficulty has always shown a great ability to restart even stronger than other countries.” “In the restart,” he concluded, “we will run and field Italian creativity, adaptability and the will to start again. Today’s inauguration is a symbol of this restart. It is a completely new operation that fits in with what we have been trying to do in recent years, placing alongside the work of conservation that of enhancing the present and the contemporary. In fact, we have created a new MiC Directorate General, Contemporary Creativity, which was not there and which allows us to invest deeply in design.”

For more info: adidesignmuseum.org

Milan, inaugurated the new ADI Design Museum that brings together the historic Compasso d'Oro award collection

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