Milan Design Week venues list
Wallpaper called out six new Fuorisalone locations to explore during Milan Design Week — including a historic private residence, an abandoned swimming pool, and a bonsai museum — signaling off‑beat venue programming across the week. (wallpaper.com) The reporting frames the week as spreading beyond traditional showrooms into more atmospheric, city‑wide installations. (wallpaper.com)
Milan Design Week is opening a new set of rarely seen spaces to the public, pushing this year’s Fuorisalone deeper into villas, palazzi, pools and museums across Milan. (wallpaper.com) Fuorisalone runs from April 20 to April 26, 2026, alongside the Salone del Mobile, and the official guide lists 763 events across the city. The 2026 theme is “Be the Project,” and Fuorisalone says more than 40 Brera events can now be accessed through a single free Passport registration. (fuorisalone.it 1) (fuorisalone.it 2) The format is different from the trade fair at Rho Fiera: Fuorisalone is a citywide program of independently organized exhibitions, installations and talks spread through neighborhoods and borrowed buildings. Archiproducts says the official dates are Monday, April 20, to Sunday, April 26, with hours and entry rules varying by venue. (archiproducts.com) That helps explain why venue choice has become part of the show itself. The City of Milan said on April 2 that the 2026 edition would combine historic areas with “new itineraries” across the city rather than keep attention in the usual design districts alone. (comune.milano.it) Wallpaper’s six-location list captures that shift with first-time or unusual sites: Villa Pestarini, Casa Rossa, Palazzo Acerbi, Piscina Romano, Palazzo Olivazzi and the Crespi Bonsai Museum. Several are not standard showroom spaces at all, but private homes, historic interiors or civic buildings repurposed for one week. (wallpaper.com) The clearest example is Alcova, one of the week’s best-known experimental platforms. Alcova says its 11th Milan edition will run across two sites, Villa Pestarini and the Baggio Military Hospital, and that Villa Pestarini — Franco Albini’s only villa in Milan — has never before been open to the public. (alcova.xyz) (fuorisalone.it) Piscina Romano shows the same playbook in a different register. Fuorisalone and 6:AM say the glass brand will stage “Over and Over and Over and Over” inside the historic pool complex at Via Ampère 24 from April 19 to April 26, using a bathhouse built in 1929 as an exhibition set. (fuorisalone.it) (6am.glass) The Crespi Bonsai Museum pushes the geography outward. The museum is in Parabiago, outside central Milan, and Crespi Bonsai says it opened on May 26, 1991, as the world’s first permanent bonsai museum; Wallpaper says it is joining the Design Week circuit this year. (crespibonsai.com) (wallpaper.com) By the time the week starts on April 20, visitors will be navigating not just product launches but a map of temporary access: a 1939 private villa, a 17th-century palazzo and a 1929 swimming complex turned into design stages. That is increasingly what Fuorisalone sells — entry into Milan spaces that are usually closed, peripheral or simply overlooked. (wallpaper.com) (archiproducts.com)
