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Theater museum La Scala
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Theater museum La Scala

📍 Largo Antonio Ghiringhelli 1, Milano, 20121🏗 1913-01-01🏛 Italian national heritage

The Museo Teatrale alla Scala, attached to the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, was opened on 8 March 1913 and grew out of a private collection purchased at auction two years earlier. It was funded through a mix of government and private sources, linking the museum’s origins to Italy’s early-20th-century commitment to safeguarding cultural memory. What you see here goes beyond a single opera house’s past. The museum holds materials that reach across Italian theatre history, including displays related to commedia dell’arte and the stage actress Eleonora Duse. Its collections include costumes, set designs, autograph scores, and historical musical instruments, along with paintings of musicians and actors and even ceramic figures depicting commedia characters. …

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