The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum’s permanent collections principally contain Italian Renaissance decorative arts (such as maiolica, furniture, tapestry, metalwork, leather, glassware and precious table-top coffers made of ivory, or “stucco and pastiglia”), some sculptures (including a Madonna and Child lunette by a follower of Donatello), and many paintings.

European Renaissance weapons, armor, clocks and a few textiles and scientific and musical instruments complete the collection assembled by the Barons Bagatti Valsecchi.

• The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a “house museum” located in Milano, Italy, one of numerous museums that began as private collections housed in a private palazzo of one of Milan’s wealthy aristocracy.

• This particular museum has not been converted completely in to a museum gallery, and parts of the historic house remain as an expression of the life of the wealthy in times gone by.

• In addition to the many fine works of art, a visitor to the Bagatti Valsecchi can see how Milanese aristocracy lived in the late 1800s.