MUDEC Milan opens storage tours every last Saturday of the month

Starting February 22, 2025, the Museo delle Culture di Milano (MUDEC) will offer regular guided tours of its open storage every last Saturday of the month. The museum, housed in a David Chipperfield-designed building in Via Tortona, was founded in 2015 to showcase collections assembled during the 20th century in the Castello Sforzesco deposits. Its ground-floor storage, organized by geographic-cultural and typological-stylistic criteria, holds about 9,000 pieces dating from 1200 BCE to the 1900s, of which only around 500 are on display. The new fixed schedule is co-designed with the Touring Club Italiano and the Municipality of Milan under the national active citizenship project "Aperti per Voi." Visits are limited to groups of nine people, with 30-minute slots starting at 3:30 PM. The storage includes African ethnographic collections from the Italian colonial period in East Africa, sub-Saharan masks and sculptures, Chinese terracottas and porcelains from Tang to Ming dynasties, over 1,500 Japanese artifacts (porcelains, textiles, bronzes, arms, lacquers, ivories), pre-Hispanic and Amerindian objects, Islamic carpets, and a collection of 124 hats and fans from the 19th and 20th centuries worldwide. Study appointments remain available.