Triennale di Milano
This is where Italian design culture has taken stock of itself — in a purpose-built 1933 palace that still hands out the Gold Medal for Architecture.
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Giovanni Muzio's Palazzo dell'Arte was built 1931–33; it later became home to the Milan Triennial, an international art and design exhibition held 13 times between 1936 and 1996, then revived in 2016. Since 2007 a permanent Italian design collection lives here. Since 2003 the triennial Gold Medal for Italian Architecture is awarded inside — recipients include Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Umberto Riva.
What to look for
- Muzio's Palazzo dell'Arte exterior, completed 1933 and financed by the Bernocchi family
- Teatro dell'Arte — a full theatre Muzio also designed inside the same building
- The Triennale Design Museum, opened 2007, housing the permanent Italian design collection
The building sits inside Parco Sempione — build in time to walk the park on arrival or departure.
Triennale di Milano is one of 35 sights worth the detour in Milan, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Milan pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Milan
- San Siro — Giuseppe Meazza StadiumTwo rival clubs, one ground: the 75,817-seat arena where Milan's football fault line runs.
- Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano)Construction started in 1386 and the final details were finished in 1965 — the city couldn't stop adding to it.
- La ScalaThe gallery gods who booed tenor Roberto Alagna off stage mid-Aida in 2006 still haunt the loggione — the cheapest seats in opera's most feared house.
- Santa Maria delle GrazieThe wall Leonardo painted on was sand-bagged against Allied bombs in 1943 — and held.
- Sforza CastleLeonardo da Vinci painted the ceiling here. Bramante did the walls down the hall.
- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele IIThe direct ancestor of every enclosed shopping mall on earth — and there is still a worn hole in the floor where Milanese spin a heel for luck.