Continues the Galleria & Friends journey in search of the most visionary historical shops of our region: one year after the release of Bottega Milano Lombardia, new shops are added creating the volume shops Milan and surroundings where the testimonies of many other craftsmen and traders are collected who carry on their company, passing through it from generation to generation with constant passion.

Historical shops as a place of culture, examples of art and craft and, in all respects, living museums thanks to the story telling of the owners, heirs and custodians of historical archives and artisan workshops still active.

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Our books 2023

The fourth volume of Bottega Milano was born in the context of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games and shares its fundamental principles of loyalty, resourcefulness, and passion. The selected excellences compose a broad and representative panorama. Alongside the great names of historic craftsmanship and commerce, there is also space for entities linked to sport, places where sporting gestures meet tradition, technique, and the transmission of knowledge. Particular attention is paid to historic districts, the true engines of urban life. Borgo San Gottardo with its popular and productive identity, and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II with the commercial and cultural contradictions of its 160 years: valid examples of how urban space can maintain an active and recognizable role over time. The paintings of Marco Crippa, a painter deeply tied to Milan, accompany the story of a city in constant movement: streets, neighborhoods, architecture vibrate with energy.

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Twelve Months of Ancient Crafts

 

As Milan sheds its skin and embraces new architecture and lifestyles, ancient crafts, practiced by our protagonists at Galleria & Friends, are gaining increasing importance and recognition. Further encouragement to explore them comes from the artistic vision of Gian Piero Siemek, an architect passionate about Milan, his adopted city, who has traveled far and wide to capture its identity. His pictorial gaze was captured by the historic shop windows of several workshops, within which increasingly valuable artisanal skills continue to thrive today.

Discover the ancient shops that make culture in the City and in Lombardy

 

Botteghe aperte

Galleria&Friends

Meetings, exhibitions, guided tours, events bring the Antiche Botteghe online for a cultural project that involves Milanese and travelers: welcome to Galleria&Friends Milano!

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Le Antiche Botteghe

di Milano

Discover all the Botteghe di Milano

Le Antiche Botteghe

of Lombardy

Discover all the Botteghe della Lombardia

Made in Lombardia!

The television broadcast of the historical workshops.

Second season of the broadcast broadcast on the Telelombardia channel.

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The culture of beauty

MBW 3-8 May 2022 is the week dedicated to the culture of beauty and well-being. Milano Beauty Week is an initiative of Cosmetic Italia in collaboration with Cosmoprof and Esxence with our shops protagonists of the Fuorisalone to make culture of beauty in the city with an intense calendar of artistic events.

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The soul of a city resides in the memory of some people, who day by day tirelessly carry on a trade, a trade, a form of craftsmanship, hidden behind a shop window, closed in an underground laboratory or in an apartment on the third floor of a period building.

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Guided tours in the Botteghe Museo

Second edition of the event that leads us to visit the Museum shops, which are among the most precious places in Lombardy. Selected from the best historical and traditional addresses, they boast craft collections, made in Italy production and architectural beauty of the location.

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