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

Our books

Galleria & Friends continues the journey in search of the most visionary historical shops of our region also on paper. Our two photographic books enhance the shops present in Milan, the heart of the first volume entirely reserved for the capital and also present with some testimonies on the second volume, with its windows and artisan workshops. In the second book dedicated to the Lombardy Region, ample space is given to historical companies that base around the Lombard provinces of Monza and Brianza, Varese, Pavia, Crema and Cremona. Particular attention to Busto Arsizio: the flagship of the volume is the focus on the first and still unique “Historical District of Commerce” of Lombardy.

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2025 calendar

Homage to Milan through the engravings of Gigi Pedroli.

Twelve months and twelve workshops for the 2025 calendar enriched by the art reproductions of the engravings of Gigi Pedroli, a Milanese artist, soul of the Centro dell’Incisione sull’Alzaia Naviglio Grande.

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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Galleria

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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