Milan, with its many galleries, is a contemporary city; yet Milan is also Pinacoteca di Brera, the Ambrosiana, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, and Gallerie d’Italia, and on 7 September, the city, welcomes a new, ancient, and archaeological, nuance to its portfolio with the opening of a new cultural centre, the Fondazione Luigi Rovati Museum.

In a splendid neoclassical building in Corso Venezia 52, four telamons welcome visitors to an extraordinarily important Etruscan collection: vases, sculptures, marbles, ceramics, interacting with contemporary paintings and tracing a journey through history and civilization. Warriors, the relationship with nature, divinities, Etruscan urban layouts, Marzabotto, and Vulci. The museum project has been entrusted to Studio MCA which designed both the interiors and the display, and also served as artistic director.

“Thanks to the extraordinary work and enthusiasm of the President of the Foundation, Giovanna Forlanelli, this important project contributing to the cultural offer of Milan has become a reality. This is more than a museum, it is a centre expressing new cultural visions and a social engagement of extraordinary relevance for our time thanks to Professor Mario Abis’s strategic contribution” affirms Mario Cucinella.

Studio MCA has also curated the design of the display cases in close collaboration with Fondazione Luigi Rovati and with the precious scientific collaboration of Professor Salvatore Settis.