Museo delle Arti Decorative
In the Sforza Castle museum complex, the Museo delle Arti Decorative preserves Milan’s applied arts as a form of high culture—objects meant to be used, traded, and displayed. The collection, managed by the municipality of Milan, is organized into sections with particular emphasis on jewelry, ivories, pottery, and art glass. What you’ll encounter begins with ceramics spanning medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque production, including maiolica pieces associated with 17th-century Lodi and Milan. The museum also brings together European chinaware and earthenware, showing how taste and technique moved across borders. For glasswork, the highlight often cited is the Gonzaga Cup: a crystal-clear vessel decorated with a pattern of small golden flowers, along with the Gonzaga coat of arms featuring a quadripartite black eagle on a white ground. …
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