Museo delle culture di david chipperfield biography

The City of Cultures complex was originally conceived by the city of Milan in 1999 to transform a group of disused buildings on the site of the former Ansaldo factory.

The driving idea was to assemble a number of institutions within a single cultural quarter for the city, including museums, archives and laboratories, thus contributing to the requalification of a former industrial neighbourhood in Southern Milan.

This process started with the first project for the Museo delle Culture (Museum of Cultures), which was opened during Expo 2015.

Contributing to ensure a space of culture as well as encounter and interaction to the community, the museum houses and displays the municipal collections of ethnographic material and hosts exhibitions of various typology, from photographs to visual art.

The project does not have a street front, but it is surrounded on all four sides by existing historical buildings with uniformly articulated elevations, inspired by a typical Milanese typology