The Galleria d'Arte Moderna Milano (also known as GAM) is the most important Lombard collection of nineteenth-century works.
It is located in the Villa Reale, in via Palestro 16 in Milan; it belongs to the Central Culture Department of the Municipality of Milan and is part of the Civic Art Collections of the Municipality of Milan.
In 1903 the Municipality decided to merge the donated works into a Contemporary Art Gallery, housed in the Salone dei Giardini Pubblici since 1877, as an independent section, at the Castello Sforzesco.
In 1920, when Villa Reale was ceded by the State to the Municipality of Milan, the Gallery of Modern Art found its permanent home here.
The Villa Belgiojoso where the Gallery is located is one of the masterpieces of Neoclassicism in Milan. It was built between 1790 and 1796 as the residence of Count Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso and was designed with elegance and functionality by the Austrian architect Leopoldo Pollack, collaborator of the greatest representative of Lombard Neoclassicism, Giuseppe Piermarini.
When the count died, the large villa was purchased by the government of the Cisalpine Republic to transform it into the Milanese residence of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was about to become president of the new Italian Republic, of which Milan would be the capital.
Transformed in 1921 into the headquarters of the Milanese collections of modern art, Villa Reale offers its visitors an extraordinary experience of continuity between "content" and "container", reaffirmed after the war by the decision to limit the collection exhibited in the villa to the nineteenth century.
GAM - Gallery of Modern Art - Villa Reale
Address: Villa Reale, Via Palestro, 16
Phone: 02 8844 5943
Site:
http://www.gam-milano.com/it/home/Location inserted by
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