On May 23 and 24, free visits to private spaces, iconic places, historic architectures, hotels, studios and new urban landmarks
For two days, Milan opens doors that are normally closed. Private homes, towers, ateliers, institutional headquarters, cultural spaces, workplaces and historic architectures become accessible thanks to Open House Milano 2026, the programme of extraordinary openings that on May 23 and 24 returns to tell the story of the city through its spaces and the transformations reshaping its urban landscape. The 11th edition also marks a new chapter for the event, which has now become one of the city’s most anticipated cultural initiatives. The 2026 theme, “Milano dall’alto”, invites visitors to observe the city from a different perspective: not only skylines and towers, but also relationships between neighbourhoods, new ways of living, architectural memory and urban transformations. An invitation to read Milan as a living, layered and constantly evolving organism.
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Lombardini 22 @Luca Rotondo
The 80 visitable locations create a heterogeneous geography of contemporary Milan. Among the new additions of this edition, Lombardini22 opens for the first time its headquarters in via Lombardini and Hub Lombardini22, a space dedicated to events and cultural projects, while MULINO Factory and MuaMua Hotel explore new forms of collective living and contemporary hospitality inside a former pasta factory also created in collaboration with Gio Ponti. Casa De Pas also exceptionally opens to the public, the historic manifesto-apartment designed in the 1970s by Jonathan De Pas inside Casa Fronte Parco by Pietro Lingeri, recently restored by his son Martino De Pas together with architects Carlo Masera and Alessandro Ferrari.
© Blu_MILANO
The programme then moves across very different worlds: from the home gallery The AP.Art.Ment, where collectible design, contemporary art and hospitality coexist within a domestic dimension, to Leonardo3 Museum inside Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, which for the occasion presents a special itinerary dedicated to the bird’s-eye view of Leonardesque Milan. Visitors can then access the spaces of Signiture, an IWG brand inside Torre Velasca, while Blu Milano transforms an apartment overlooking the tower into a manifesto-home built through colour, light and chromatic contrasts. Among the openings are also Casa Girola, the historic building reinterpreted by Piero Portaluppi and today home to Banca Investis, and CPM Music Institute, one of Italy’s most important music education centres founded by Franco Mussida.
© Ansaldo
Alongside domestic architectures and new living models, Open House Milano also continues to explore the city’s cultural and productive side. Openings include Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, Teatro Filodrammatici, Auditorium di Milano and the Laboratori del Teatro alla Scala, where the sets and costumes of Milanese theatre are created. Also not to be missed is Centro produzione TV RAI Milano with the historic Palazzo della Radio in corso Sempione. The itinerary continues through art galleries such as Assab One, house museums including Casa Museo Mangini Bonomi, Atelier Mazot and Casa del Petrarca, as well as private collections such as Giuseppe Iannacone’s collection inside Torre Snia Viscosa.
© Assab One
The programme also includes some of the most recognisable architectures in Milan’s skyline, from Diamond Tower to Palazzina INA, from Collegio di Milano to Torre Arcobaleno and Casa Rustici. Among the private residences opening to the public are Casa Aricò, Casa Cicca Museum, Casa degli archi ritrovati, Loft in Via Legnone and Spazio Vito Nesta, while the narrative of the contemporary city also passes through LivingUp, on the 18th floor of one of the towers of the SeiMilano project by Mario Cucinella Architects, design showrooms such as Archiproduct Milano and Cassina Store Milano, and design studios including Barreca&LaVarra, Oneworks Headquarters and ACE - Integrated Design Company inside Palazzo Archinto.
© Casa Studio Aricò
Hospitality also occupies an important part of the programme, with openings ranging from Grand Hotel et de Milan to the green hotel Hotel Concorde, up to Nhow Milano and CX Milan Bicocca Campus & Hotel, an example of hybrid hospitality born from the reconversion of the former Manifattura Tabacchi.
© Grand Hotel et de Milan
This year too, the programme is built through a network of collaborations involving institutions, magazines and schools. Among them are NABA, inaugurating the event with the performative project “Nel Paese delle Ombre” hosted at Centro Artistico Alik Cavaliere; Abitare, accompanying visitors to discover the Aparto Giovenale student residence designed by Carmody Groarke with Calzoni Architetti; and Lampoon Magazine, which signs the publication Milano Città Giardino dedicated to the relationship between nature, public space and the future of the city.
The full programme can be consulted and booked at https://www.openhousemilano.org
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