Poldi Pezzoli Museum, a Milanese house museum of excellence

The precious collection

Among Milan’s house museums, the Poldi Pezzoli is perhaps the most famous and therefore undoubtedly deserves a guided tour. Our expert guides will tell us about the life of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli, heir to a family that boasted a strong collecting tradition and was able to make their noble residence what is now one of the main and most beautiful museum-houses in the city and in Europe. Some of the most famous pieces, such as Pollaiolo‘s Portrait of a Woman , Piero della Francesca ‘s Saint Nicholas and Giovanni Bellini’sImago Pietatis, constitute, together with theArmory refurbished by Arnaldo Pomodoro, the Hall of Clocks, the Dante Cabinet and the collections of jewelry, enamels and furnishings, the marvelous attractions of this residence. An invitation to discover the treasures hidden behind the threshold of 12 Via Manzoni is therefore a must!

A visit to the Poldi Pezzoli Museum

Our guided tour of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum not only tells the artistic history of Europe through precious masterpieces and artifacts, but paints an exciting cultural glimpse into the ideals that animated the intellectuals of the first half of the19th century, especially in Milan. Our licensed guides will tell you the story of Count Poldi Pezzoli and the way in which, heir to a collecting tradition already alive in his family, he put his material wealth to good use to gather in his home pieces of art that even in the era in which he lived aroused the admiration and awe of his contemporaries. His art purchases were often wisely influenced by a group of refined connoisseurs and art experts, among them Giuseppe Molteni and Giovanni Morelli, who were well up-to-date on the trends of nineteenth-century Italian and European collecting; a constant interest in the universe of applied arts, the search for masterpieces of art and craftsmanship, and a predilection for the paintings of some of the leading schools of Italian and European art made his private collection famous throughout the world. A great little treasure hidden in the historic center of Milan and which, today as well as in the 19th century, is worth a visit.