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Museum

Mudec

Via Tortona, 56, 20144 Milano MI

Ethnographic museum in a former factory complex, its glass central hall shaped like an open flower.

This guide to Mudec in Milan follows architect David Chipperfield's fifteen-year design of the museum on the site of the old Ansaldo factory, and the falling-out that erupted when construction moved ahead without him in the final stretch. You'll hear what he found on the ground floor that made him call it a museum of horrors, and how the dispute with the city council escalated over cost, blame and an offer he made out of his own fees. It follows why, on opening day in 2015, the building's own architect refused to walk through its front door.

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