Fondazione Boschi Di Stefano
Supporting Casa Museo since its inception
The Foundation has actively collaborated with the Municipality of Milan to support Casa Museo and enhance its accessibility. This includes offering cultural enrichment activities, educational programs, and multimedia tools for museum visits, aiming to foster knowledge of one of the most extraordinary collections of 20th-century Italian art.
The Foundation wishes you a pleasant holiday. We look forward to seeing you again in September!
Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano will, however, remain open throughout August. Come and discover it!
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The Foundation
Fondazione Boschi Di Stefano was established in 1998
following an agreement between Boschi’s heirs and the Municipality of Milan. This agreement ensured the fulfillment of Antonio Boschi’s testamentary wishes, as he had donated his extraordinary collection to the Municipality and desired for a selection of the works to be re-housed in the residence where he lived with his wife, Marieda Di Stefano. In collaboration with Philippe Daverio, the Municipal Councillor for Culture, an agreement was reached to create a Foundation administered by representatives of the Municipality and the family. These representatives are joined by the Director of the Civic Art Collections, at the time Dr. Maria Teresa Fiorio, who was responsible for the current selection and exhibition arrangement of the collection.
Library
The Library at Fondazione Boschi Di Stefano
houses the book collection of over 2,300 volumes belonging to art historian Ettore Camesasca (1922-1995), donated by his heir.
A multifaceted personality, Camesasca is renowned for curating the Rizzoli “Classici dell’Arte” series, organizing both international and national exhibitions, collaborating with P.M. Bardi on the setup of the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil, conducting meticulous studies—both monographic and re-editions of classics—on artistic figures, particularly those from the Renaissance.
In addition to this core library, there are two smaller book collections linked to the personal archives of the Director of the Civic Art Collections of Milan, Mercedes Precerutti Garberi (1927-2007), and the journalist and art critic, Liana Bortolon (1923-2020).
Furthermore, a library focused on monographs and texts related to the history of 20th-century art is currently being developed.
Casa Museo
Since February 5th 2003
Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano opened to the public on February 5th, 2003, at Via Giorgio Jan 15. It exhibits – within the premises inhabited during their lives by Antonio Boschi (1896-1988) and Marieda Di Stefano (1901-1968) – a selection of approximately three hundred of the over two thousand works from their collection, which was donated to the Municipality of Milan in 1974.
The collection represents an extraordinary testament to the history of 20th-century Italian art—comprising paintings, sculptures, and drawings—from the first decade of the twentieth century to the late 1960s.
The Heritage
Among Antonio Boschi's testamentary wishes
was the provision that the apartment at Via Jan 15, where he and Marieda had long lived, should be opened to the public as a house-museum, housing a selection of the works they had collected.
In the eleven exhibition spaces of Casa Boschi Di Stefano, approximately three hundred of the over two thousand works collected by Antonio and Marieda are displayed, presented according to a chronological succession and qualitative selection criteria curated by Maria Teresa Fiorio, former Director of the Civic Art Collections of Milan.