Museo del Novecento

The Museo del Novecento is a museum dedicated to twentieth-century art located in Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy. It is situated in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, close to Piazza del Duomo in the city center. The museum first opened its doors in December 2010. It exhibits over 400 pieces from the twentieth century, most of which are Italian.

With the exception of a single room including works by international artists such as Braque, Kandinsky, Klee, Léger, Matisse, Mondrian, and Picasso, the majority of the paintings on display in the museum are by Italian painters. The Italian Futurists are featured prominently, including works by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Fortunato Depero, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini, Mario Sironi, and Ardengo Soffici. Il Quarto Stato (1902), a big canvas by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, is also shown in its own chamber.

Other areas of the museum are devoted to certain artists, such as Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, and Salvador Dali. There are additional sections devoted to twentieth-century art trends such as Abstractionism, Arte Povera, the Novecento Italiano, Post-Impressionism, and Realism, as well as genres such as landscape and monumental art. Private collectors Bianca and Mario Bertolini gave the museum a major contribution of modern artworks by artists such as Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol 2015.

Location: Piazza del Duomo 8, 20122 Milan

Website: museodelnovecento.org/en