Milan, Novecento Museum expansion work to start soon. 27 million construction site

In Milan , work on the footbridge connecting the two bodies of the Palazzo dell’Arengario in Piazza del Duomo will start next year. Announcing this, in the final bars of the Culture 2023 Forum held Tuesday in the Sala Viscontea of the Castello Sforzesco, was Culture Councillor Tommaso Sacchi, who announced the city council’s approval of the final project for the expansion of the Museo del Novecento: there will thus be the suspended walkway connecting the two towers, and the second building will be dedicated tocontemporary art. Value of the project: 27 million euros. Work should start in 2024, and it will take a couple of years to complete the operations.

“With Director Maraniello we are working daily on one of the great challenges of the city’s future. Such an important and meaningful sign for all of us, even iconic. I know that journalists always like to have the news: this afternoon we brought the final project that cubes 27 million euros and will be a huge construction site that will allow us to realize the completion of the second arengario and therefore the Museo del Novecento as we are imagining it together.”

It will be, Sacchi added, “a museum that will also be a reference for the contemporary: I want to reiterate this, because if it is true that today the Museo del Novecento is an extraordinarily important gallery for the art of futurism (in this case thanks to the foresight and generosity of figures of patrons, of figures of art collecting), the museum will also become a decisive building site for the future of the city’s cultural life, and it will complete a very important and central district, including geographically (Cathedral Square through the Cathedral itself as a great sacred and architectural monument, and through the Duomo Museum, the Museum of the Twentieth Century, and the Royal Palace, which will become a very articulated district). The city wants to bring a conscious tourism, which is also attentive to the cultural dimension of our Milan, and this represents a great novelty.”

The Palazzo dell’Arengario, designed in the 1930s by Piero Portaluppi, Giovanni Muzio, Gualtiero Galmanini, Vico Magistretti and Enrico Agostino Griffini, and whose construction lasted from 1936 to 1956, was first home to municipal and provincial offices, after which, following a restoration that began in 2009, it became home to the Museo del Novecento, which opened in December 2010. The next chapter in the history of the museum will therefore be the connection between the two bodies (it must be said that the solution of the footbridge was also harshly criticized) and the destination of the second body, the one on the southern side, to the contemporary. In addition, as already announced, the museum will also be enriched by the donation of the president of the Pasquinelli Foundation, Giuseppina Antognini, of works from her collection, worth about 15 million euros (there are works by Boccioni, Balla, Sironi, De Chirico, Savinio and others). The competition to design the connection between the two bodies ended in 2021 with the victory of the team led by Sonia Calzoni and including Pierluigi Nicolin, Ferdinando Aprile, Giuseppe Di Bari, and Bruno Finzi.

The road, however, is not yet definitively paved. “I hope to be able to close this issue that is very close to my heart, related to the walkway between the two Arengari,” Mayor Beppe Sala said as he opened the proceedings, “and I hope to be able to get it done and get to a definition of the project in the spring: the goal we are setting is to be able to start the work by the end of next year and then presumably it will take a couple of years of work. I would like to see it, as mayor, finished. It will be a personal satisfaction, but the important thing is to get things done.”

Milan, Novecento Museum expansion work to start soon. 27 million construction site

Warning: the translation into English of the original Italian article was created using automatic tools. We undertake to review all articles, but we do not guarantee the total absence of inaccuracies in the translation due to the program. You can find the original by clicking on the ITA button. If you find any mistake,please contact us.