Studio Museo Francesco Messina
Francesco Messina’s studio-museum is housed inside the deconsecrated church of San Sisto al Carrobbio, tucked in the ancient Roman area of Milan. The building had been ordered for demolition after years of neglect, but in the late 1960s Messina—an Italian artist by adoption, originally from Sicily—sought a lifelong lease: he would use the space as a studio, restore both the church and the adjoining rectory, and leave the museum to the Comune di Milano. That agreement was accepted by the city government through a “Patto di Comodato” signed on 10 November 1969 by notary Moretti. Restoration took three years, and the museum-studio was completed in 1974. Inside, it opens on two floors and presents the collection Messina donated to the city: 80 sculptures and 26 works on paper. …
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