Milano Design Agenda

Essenziale Quotidiano explores food as a cultural practice—through objects, behaviors, and production systems that shape its meaning today. Curated across six thematic matrices and closing with the symbolic ritual of coffee, the exhibition reflects on nourishment as a design-driven, everyday, and collective act. A narrative that connects design, habits, and contemporary imagination.

TOOLS is the ADI Design Museum's new exhibition celebrating craftsmanship and manual skills as central elements in contemporary innovation. 
The exhibition is developed in four thematic islands - papermaking, typography, tailoring and videomaking - that host workshops, demonstrations and meetings, to rediscover the value of savoir faire between tradition and experimentation.

Enriching the exhibition's itinerary is a public program full of events with weekly workshops, lectures and performances in collaboration with experts, institutions and companies in the sector, to deepen techniques, knowledge and visions related to design and creative industries.

Exhibition dedicated to the multifaceted figure of Franco Marabelli - planner, set designer, designer, artist - who delivers to the public a dense and layered narrative, suspended between creative autobiography and ecological urgency.

Not a mere retrospective, but a crossing capable of questioning the viewer about the fate of man and the planet.

An exhibition that retraces the years of Galtrucco's commercial activity, told in a temporal narrative path that starts in the 1920s up to the beginning of the new millennium. The exhibition is divided into two sections: the first, curated by Alessandra Coppa, is dedicated to Galtrucco's communication through its shops, shop windows and advertising; the second, curated by Margherita Rosina and Enrica Morini, focuses on the fabrics sold in its spaces.

The exhibition curated by writer and designer Stefano Casciani aims to reconstruct the intertwining of art and design from 1915 to 2025. A vast theme with many ramifications that brings together under one ideal umbrella artists lent to design, designers interested in the languages of the visual arts and eccentric figures poised between these two worlds capable of capturing the best of both. 

An exhibition dedicated to one of the most eccentric and radical figures in post-war design culture.

Architect, inventor, and builder, Bini moved independently and with precision across the boundaries of architecture, engineering, and industrial design.

Curated by Alessandro Colombo and Paola Garbuglio.

2025 marks the centenary of the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris, the event that marked the establishment of the "Style 1925" or Art Deco. To celebrate this anniversary, the exhibition will present the public with extraordinary examples of Italian and European decorative arts, from glassware to porcelain to majolica, from textiles to furniture and jewellery, as well as paintings, sculptures, drawings and advertising posters, to restore as much as possible the climate and atmosphere of an unrepeatable and fascinating era. 

The exhibition examines the creative process leading up to the making of a film by exploring storyboards and other materials such as moodboards, drawings and sketches, scrapbooks and notebooks, annotated scripts and photographs. Set up in the spaces of the Observatory, it includes more than a thousand elements created between 1930 and 2024 by more than 50 authors including directors, cinematographers, artists, graphic designers, animators, choreographers and other figures related to film and video production.

A thematic exhibition curated by the Norman Foster Foundation addresses the housing crisis in emergency contexts, showcasing Foster’s work on Indian slums and temporary settlements for displaced people through videos, drawings, images and two 1:1 scale shelter prototypes, and the Affordable Future Mock-Up and the Displaced Communities Mock-Up developed with the Essential Home Research Project.

In a fragmented world design can no longer just focus on creating shapes. It must address the fractures of the present, understand how they are created, and propose new connections. This need gives rise to Inequalities, the 24th International Exhibition of Triennale Milano.

The exhibition spans over 7,500 square meters, with eight main exhibitions, ten special projects, an international participation section, a wide public program, and an urban tour across Milan’s districts.

The Museum of Italian Design celebrates the centenary of Triennale Milano with a new path that starts from the foundation of the institution in 1923 and ends with the development of technological, material and social research that has transformed the identity, aesthetics and main features of design Italian. The exhibition itinerary presents over 300 objects from the permanent collection which, when related to the history of the institution, tell the story of Italian design through the reconstruction of some domestic interiors. A journey that culminates in the Design Platform, a space that hosts temporary exhibitions of young designers and new forms.

The Museum of Italian Design is a Permanent Exhibition of Triennale MIlano

The exhibition DesignUP - seamless solutions is the new thematic in-depth exploration of the permanent collection of the Compasso d'Oro award that aims to represent each product as the result of a complex system, solutions of continuity in fact, that give iconic Italian design objects their uniqueness. The exhibition project highlights the most specific features of what we now call Made in Italy, and how design culture has permeated all the different stages of the country's development.