Milan is for Culture Lovers

From the world to Milan and back again

A complex legacy

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The Impact of Italy's Colonial Past

Mudec - Museum of Cultures

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Amazing Artifacts from Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas

Mudec - Museum of Cultures

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How Treasures From the Far East Made it to Milan

Mudec - Museum of Cultures

Spotlight on: Mudec

Collection

The Museum of Cultures, Milan

Italy

Kple Kple zoomorphic mask

Baulé People

Kawari kabuto, or “extravagant helmet”, with mask

Cultures of Japan

Double spout and bridge vessel

Paracas Culture

Vase decorated with the depiction of a warrior, part of a twin set

Huari Culture

Two cloths of a male poncho

Huari Culture

Nō theater mask

Edo Period

Scepter head decorated with a hunting scene and birds pecking at fruit

Chimú Culture

Historic artifacts

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Milan's Most Beautiful Musical Instruments

Castello Sforzesco

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An Ancient Golden Tunic

Mudec - Museum of Cultures

Spearhead

Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Cultures

Portal of the Medici Bank

Lombard sculptors (after a design by Filarete?)

Nautilus shell on pedestal

Anonymous German, Made in Augsburg

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Proust armchair

Alessandro Mendini with Alchimia

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Pair of natural horns ("hunting horns")

Michael Leichamschneider

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

December

Vigevano manufacture. Tapestry maker Benedetto da Milano, from cartoons by Bartolomeo Suardi known as Bramantino.

Capitals of the pillars of Porta Romana with “Saint Ambrose chasing the Arians from Milan”; “Friar Jacopo leading allied troops towards MIlan”; “Inhabitants of Milan returning to the city"

Anselmo and Girardo

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Recumbent effigy of Gaston de Foix

Agostino Busti known as Bambaia

October

Vigevano manufacture. Tapestry maker Benedetto da Milano, from cartoons by Bartolomeo Suardi known as Bramantino.

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Mudec - Museo delle Culture

Spotlight on: Textiles

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The Fabrics of the Kana Culture

Mudec - Museum of Cultures

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