Martina C.
Yelp
A must day trip outside Milan!
It's just one hour driving from the city, and sort of near Malpensa airport.
The villa-museum is a 700' mansion with baroque decoration and furniture. The owners are rich collectors that in the 1960s-1980s buy an impressive collections of conceptual and minimal american art.
What it's impressive is that this contemporary art collection perfectly fit the environment, between baroque gold couches, chairs, mirrors, and african vases and sculptures.
You can admire unique pieces (some made it for the villa as site-specific installations!) of Dan Flavin, Robert Irwin, and many more. Great videos explain the history of the collectors, and the artists involvement in the development of the collections.
The park is lovely, with a great overview on Varese city. Few sculptures here and there made the walkthrough lovely and interesting.