The Triennale di Milano is a design and art museum in the
Parco Sempione in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...
, in
Lombardy
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in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arte, which was designed by
Giovanni Muzio and built between 1931 and 1933; construction was financed by
Antonio Bernocchi
Antonio Bernocchi (17 January 1859 – 8 December 1930) was an Italian industrialist, who built up a successful textile factory at Legnano, in Lombardy.
Life
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and his brothers Andrea and Michele.
The
Milan Triennial, an
international exhibition
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of art and design, was held at the museum thirteen times between 1936 and 1996, and – after a break of twenty years – again in 2016.
Since 2003 the Triennale has awarded the triennial
Gold Medal for Italian Architecture ( it, Medaglia d'oro all'architettura italiana, italic=no).
A permanent museum of
Italian design, the Trienniale Design Museum, was opened in 2007.
It hosts design, architecture, and the visual, scenic and performing arts.
The building houses a theatre, the Teatro dell'Arte, which was also designed by Muzio.
In 2019, th
XXII Triennalewas celebrated under the title "Broken Nature", focusing on design approaches that explore the relations between humans, nature and other species.
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Art museums and galleries in Milan
Italian art institutions
Design museums
Italian design
1923 establishments in Italy
Italian fascist architecture
Modern art museums in Italy
Tourist attractions in Milan
Compasso d'Oro Award recipients