While in Quadrilatero D’Oro we plan to stop at Palazzo Morando. It is billed like a fashion museum and it is free so while in the heart of the fashion district we have to at least visit it. Palazzo Morando is at least 400 years old and even from the courtyard it looks impressive. We explore the courtyard for a while looking for the entrance and even finding free toilets, a rarity in the city.
We enter easy enough and soon we learn that it is not a fashion only museum, not even a fashion majority museum. In fact it is mostly focused on paintings but the paintings themselves have an interesting theme. They are focused on Milan and show it through the ages and it is fun to see the buildings and plazas as they looked decades ago.
Another interesting feature of the paintings is that they are showing the building process of some of the monumental buildings. We especially like those showing how the Duomo was growing over the years, it took centuries for it to be finished.
The paintings are housed in rooms fit for a Milan nobleperson. They are beautifully furnished and are a highlight maybe even more than the paintings.
The one room that jumps out is the Oriental room. It is blue and has artifacts from the Orient collected by the former owners.
We have to always remember to look up as the ceilings are also quite interesting and seem to be handcrafted and painted individually.
The fashion section is only a few rooms but it is seemingly the most visited one. There are lots of people in this section admiring the authentic Milanese fashion.
The exhibits are organized by decades and they are linked to trends in Milanese fashion. The informational signs are good but we really would have liked to get more information or exhibits as sometimes it felt they were skimming over major changes in the industry or not detailing why a change was such a big deal. And with this we finished our tour and returned back to exploring the Quadrilatero D’Oro the beautiful neigborhood the palace is located in.
