Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano

The Boschi Di Stefano House Museum presents a collection of twentieth-century Italian art in the Milan apartment where collectors Antonio Boschi and Marieda Di Stefano lived. The apartment, designed by Piero Portaluppi, preserves the domestic setting and original arrangement of many works.

Why it matters

The City of Milan museum preserves part of the collection of more than two thousand works assembled by Antonio Boschi and Marieda Di Stefano. The paintings remain displayed in the rooms where the couple placed them, offering a view of modern Italian art within a domestic setting rather than a conventional gallery. The collection includes artists such as Filippo De Pisis, Alberto Savinio, Roberto Crippa, Ardengo Soffici, Piero Marussig and Renato Paresce.

What to notice

The apartment’s sequence of rooms and fitted details reflects the design of the late-1920s building by Piero Portaluppi. The original arrangement of the paintings preserves the collectors’ domestic presentation, with works displayed among the furnishings and interiors of the home. This relationship between architecture, objects and paintings is central to the museum’s identity.

Context and history

Antonio Boschi, an engineer from Novara who worked at Pirelli, and Marieda Di Stefano, a ceramist trained with sculptor Luigi Amigoni, married in 1927 and moved to Via Jan in 1931. The building was designed by Piero Portaluppi between 1929 and 1931 for Marieda’s father, Francesco Di Stefano. The couple assembled a collection of more than two thousand works and donated it to the City of Milan between 1974 and 1988. The apartment later opened as a house museum, preserving the original hang.