Triennale di Milano

This article is about the building. For the exhibitions, see Milan Triennial.

Triennale di Milano

Location	Viale Alemagna 6, 20121, Milan, Italy
Coordinates	45.4724°N 9.174°E / 45.4724; 9.174
Collections	Twentieth-century art
Director	Andrea Cancellato
Curator	Silvana Annacchiarico
Website	triennale.org

The Triennale di Milano is a museum of art and design in the Parco Sempione in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arte [it], built between 1931 and 1933 to designs by Giovanni Muzio and financed by Antonio Bernocchi and his brothers Andrea and Michele.^[1]: 1948 The building houses a theatre, the Teatro dell'Arte, which was also designed by Muzio.^[2]: 51

An international exhibition of art and design, the Milan Triennial, was held at the museum thirteen times between 1936 and 1996,^[3] and again in 2016.^[4]

Since 2003 the Triennale has awarded the triennial Gold Medal for Italian Architecture or Medaglia d'oro all'architettura italiana;^[5] Umberto Riva, Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas, Vincenzo Latina and Massimo Carmassi have been among the recipients.^[5]

A permanent museum of Italian design, the Triennale Design Museum, was opened in 2007.^[2]: 51

See also

• List of design museums

References

1. Dario Marchesoni, Luisa Giussani (1985). La Triennale di Milano e il Palazzo dell'arte. Milan: Electra. ISBN 9788843511723.
2. Maria Grazia Bellisario Angela Tecce (2012). I luoghi del contemporaneo 2012: Contemporary art venues. Roma: Gangemi, 2012. ISBN 9788849224108.
3. Milan Triennial Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Architecture. Paris: Bureau International des Expositions. Archived 4 September 2011.
4. 21st century. Design after Design. Paris: Bureau International des Expositions. Accessed November 2017.
5. Luca Trombetta (16 December 2015). Un restauro che vale oro (in Italian). Milano: Corriere della Sera. Archived 13 January 2023.