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Triennale di Milano
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DESIGN MUSEUM
( 02 72 43 41; www.triennaledesignmuseum.it ; Viale Emilio Alemanga 6; adult/reduced €8/6.50;
10.30am-8.30pm Tue, Wed, Sat & Sun, to 11pm Thu & Fri; ; Cadorna) Italy's first Triennale took
place in 1923 in Monza. It aimed to promote interest in Italian design and applied arts,
from 'the spoon to the city,' and its success led to the creation of Giovanni Muzio's Palazzo
d'Arte in Milan in 1933. Since then it has championed design in all its forms, although the
triennale formula has since been replaced by long annual events, with international exhib-
its as part of the program.
Planet Expo 2015: Learn, Enjoy, Have Fun is the latest multisensory exhibition that fo-
cuses on the 2015 Expo.
Cimitero Monumentale
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CEMETERY
( 02 8846 5600; www.monumentale.net ; Piazzale Cimitero Monumentale; 8am-6pm Tue-Sun; Garibaldi)
Behind striking Renaissance-revival black-and-white walls, Milan's wealthy have
kept their dynastic ambitions alive long after death with grand sculptural gestures since
1866. Nineteenth-century death-the-maiden eroticism gives way to some fabulous abstract
forms from midcentury masters. Studio BBPR's geometric steel-and-marble memorial to
Milan's WWII concentration camp dead is stark and moving. Grab a map inside the fore-
court.
FIERA
Milan's two fiera (fairgrounds) play host to an endless round of trade fairs as well as the biannual fashion block-
busters. Massimiliano Fuksas' brilliantly engineered Fiera Milano ( www.fieramilano.it ) exhibition space was
built on the Agip oil refinery in Rho-Pero, around 40 minutes out of town by metro. In action since 2006, its bil-
lowing glass-and-steel sail floats over 1.4km of halls, capable of holding up to half a million visitors. The city's
historic fairgrounds just northwest of Parco Sempione are the site of the CityLife redevelopment but smaller fairs
are still held at the remaining pavilions, known as Fiera Milano City.
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