For those who have a refined palette for all things art and history, the Bagatti Velsecchi Museum in Milan is a unique little place that you should not miss out on. The museum used to be a family home for 2 brothers: Barons Fausto and Giuseppe Baggati Valsecchi, who sought to refurbish their home with strictly neo-Renaissance style artefacts.

However, what was supposed to be a simple redecoration of their family home turned into a collecting frenzy of 15th and 16th century paintings and artefacts, which eventually evolved this little house into the museum that stands right to this day! The museum’s permanent collection boasts a fine display of Italian Renaissance decorative arts like glassware, furniture, tapestry, sculptures and scores of paintings, to name a few, and European Renaissance weapons, musical instruments, clocks amongst others, adorn this extraordinary lavish mansion.

So take a trip down to the Monthenapoleone district of downtown Milan and spend a few hours lost in the refinements of luxury. Open up your palette to the finer things in life and awe at the priceless wealth of yesteryear, now unfurled before you in glorious splendour.