MILAN – Italy – On the occasion of the initiatives linked to the Fuorisalone (Milan Design Week), MUMAC, Coffee Machine Museum by Gruppo Cimbali, will be present in the city during the week dedicated to the design with numerous initiatives dedicated to art and design lovers with the aim to make them known MUMAC.
The various activities will take place in the Design Week and some hot spots will continue in the following days.
50+!
The exhibition “50+! – The great industry game” organized by Francesca Molteni and staged by Franco Raggi, with the support of Museimpresa (the Italian Association of company museums and archives, promoted by Assolombarda e Confindustria), set up in the headquarter of the Order of Architects, opened on 12th April in the central Via Solferino 17 (Milan) and will be open until May 13th.
A photographic panel will present, among other Italian industrial icons, also the Pitagora coffee machine designed in 1962 by the Castiglioni brothers for La Cimbali.
After this exhibition, “50+!” will become a traveling exhibition in various Italian cities, allowing to make known our reality in many prestigious Italian places.
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Inaugurated on April 8th, the exhibition displays, in the suggestive location of Incoronata Library in corso Garibaldi 116, two pieces of MUMAC Collection (LACimbali Pitagora and FAEMA E61) and some household items produced in the 50’s (Baby Faema, Faemina, Microcimbali) from the private collection Maltoni.
On April 19th there will be a shuttle from the exhibition at MUMAC to bring visitors enthusiasts of art and design to visit our museum. The exhibition will be open until 22nd April.
The Compasso d’Oro Streets
The thousand faces of design in Milan drawn in a number of possible routes, crossing the entire city and its surrounding: the Compasso d’Oro Streets is an ADI Lombardia initiative to lead the visitors to the discovery of the XXI Triennial of selected projects over more than sixty years of the Compasso d’Oro ADI life, that are still capable of arousing wonder and thoughts about design can improve the daily lives of all.
MUMAC enters with pride in this important circuit with the exhibition of LaCimbali Pitagora espresso coffee machine, the only one that ever has won the prestigious award.
MUMAC Bee in Lambrate
Our Piaggio Ape Car branded MUMAC, fitted with a E61 Legend, will be present in one of the hotspots of the city, in Via Ventura 14, opposite the former historical site of FAEMA, to offer a free coffee and information useful to visit the museum.
Via Ventura 14 is a place that involves visitors with its atmosphere of a former industrial area, in this occasion used to host the “Ventura Academies”, i.e. the presentation of colleges, academies and universities around the world.
MUMAC Bee will be present every day from 12th to 17th April from 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m., with extended hours until 8.00 p.m.on next Wednesday, April 13th.
