The Museum of Italian Design

The Museum of Italian Design, the result of the initiative of Stefano Boeri, president of Triennale Milano, and the Board of Directors of Fondazioni di Triennale, involves the coordination of a steering committee that brings together outstanding figures in the world of Italian design and architecture: Paola Antonelli, Mario Bellini, Andrea Branzi, Antonio Citterio, Michele De Lucchi, Piero Lissoni, Claudio Luti, Fabio Novembre, Patricia Urquiola.

In the weeks to come the Triennale will appoint a specific committee for acquisitions, to expand the collection in the near future.

“The opening of the Museum of Italian Design – says Stefano Boeri – represents the first phase of a larger long-term project supported by Mibac and by other partners of the Triennale, in collaboration with ADI and Assolombarda, with which the Triennale is forming an association. The objective is to expand our collection through strategic acquisition policies and new collaborations with archives, companies, schools, universities and other museums, and to increase the spaces set aside for design at the Triennale, to make our institution the most important international center on Italian design.”

The expansion project will be linked to the launch of an international design competition – an open procedure in two phases – to be announced by May 2019. It will include new exhibition spaces to contain the entire collection, and areas set aside for public services, as well as the reorganization of the archives for a total of 6000 m2.

In the first phase the Museum of Italian Design will be housed in the curve on the ground floor of the Palazzo dell’Arte, in an area of about 1300 square meters. The displays will present about 200 objects that narrate 35 years of history of radical experimentation (1946 to 1981). The exhibits offer in-depth perspectives on the history and context in which the objects were designed, through photographs, ad campaigns and original packaging.