The Molteni group is one of Italy’s leading international furnishings companies.

The Molteni Museum was established in 2015, the year of the International Expo in Milan, to celebrate 80 years’ history, innovation, research and quality, and thus contribute to the spread of design culture. Mounted by Jasper Morrison, with the image coordinated by Studio Cerri & Associati, the museum is located in the Group’s headquarters in Giussano. It houses a permanent collection of 48 iconic products and original prototypes of the Group’s companies: Molteni&C, Dada, Unifor and Citterio. Presented to the public for the fi rst time to coincide with the 80!Molteni exhibition at Milan’s Galleria d’Arte Moderna, the collection is enriched with new fi nds, furniture and hitherto unpublished documents, designs and projects as well as communication and graphic material, along with constantly updated multimedia staging.

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The Museum is a dynamic place which fosters research and memory while stimulating dialogue and exchanges of ideas, a place where the numerous local and international communities that enjoy relations with Molteni can come together, a refl ection on the cultural and collective heritage and a symbol of the Group that has promoted the quality of things Made in Italy all over the world.

The seat of the museum highlights and testifies to the Group’s history. The building itself was built as a factory at the end of the 1950s and used as a drying shed for sheared wood. Renovated in 1986 by Aldo Rossi and Luca Meda, and then, in 2004, by Studio Cerri & Associati, it preserves traces of its industrial past. The Molteni Museum is associated with Museimpresa – Associazione Italiana Archivi e Musei d’Impresa – promoted by Assolombarda and Confindustria.

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A place devoted to the research, preservation and study of the Molteni Group’s cultural heritage, the Archive is based in an old country house, within the industrial complex. Set up in 2013, its purpose is to analyze, catalogue and fi le historical documents. Over four and a half thousand items, that testify to the Group’s past and its development, from products to designs, from prototypes to paper and photographic materials, without forgetting digital and oral sources, interviews and video interviews.

The Archive proposes to open its doors to both scholars and members of the public, thanks to the creation of an online digital catalogue, linked to the databases and websites of other institutions involved in researching and celebrating the history of Italian design.

The Giussano Compound stretches over a surface area of 170,000 sq m, approximately 60,000 of which are covered and devoted to production and to the R&D center. It is here, since 1934, that Molteni&C’s entire furniture production cycle has taken place: from veneer to the finished products. Manufacturing that has always been 100% Made in Italy, guaranteed by strict controls at every stage of the production process, for global quality acknowledged in over 80 countries in the world.

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Bus transfer from and to Milan.

 

• Welcome and introduction to Molteni  Group 10min
• Guided tour 
• Molteni Museum   45min
• Molteni Archive  15 min. 
• Molteni Compound  including QM multi media space ( devoted to Quality)  and Glass Cube  installation designed by Ron Gilad 

 The visit takes approx. 2 hrs.