Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Art museums

Museo Mangini Bonomi is a house museum that reflects the distinctive features of a generous Milanese, passionate collector of everyday items ("private life, work, pastimes"), from ancient up to recent times. Following the paths of collecting, Emilio Mangini traveled all over Europe discovering those thousand of objects from the past, gathered together within the space of decades, that nowadays, thanks to his generous donation, constitute the "Emilio Carlo Mangini Foundation". To his son Giuseppe Mangini, man of vast knowledge and passionate archeologist, is due the choice of the building where the foundation is based, at 20 via dell'Ambrosiana, and the enrichment of the collections. The heterogeneous and varied set of objects and furnishings gathers together remarkable groups of cases, playing cards, ancient arms, shaving washbowls and more, layed out in a real private dwelling to be visited from basement (corresponding to the Roman period ground line) up to all upper levels.