Contemporary Arts Pavilion
The Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea—PAC—was created to solve a practical problem of its time: in 1947, the Municipality of Milan needed a dedicated exhibition space for contemporary art after the bombing-destroyed Villa Belgioiosa in 1943. The pavilion’s design by architect Ignazio Gardella was preliminarily selected in March 1948, and the PAC was inaugurated in 1954 on Via Palestro, beside the Galleria d’Arte Moderna and opposite the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli. The building’s story was disrupted by violence. In 1979, PAC reopened after a long closure for renovations, but in 1993 a bomb destroyed the pavilion during the period when Italy was heavily engaged in its fight against the Mafia—events later remembered as the Via Palestro massacre. …
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