Fondazione Achille Castiglioni

In January 2006 Achille Castiglioni's heirs signed a five-year agreement with the Triennale di Milano so that the Studio Museo Achille Castiglioni could be opened to the public and continue its articulated archival work. Given the success of these years, more than 40,000 visitors (2014), the Castiglioni family wanted to continue to share the place and the stories it contains with visitors.  For this reason and to develop the many projects in which the Studio Museo is involved, the Achille Castiglioni Foundation was established on 14 December 2011. The Foundation's main purpose is to catalogue, order, archive, digitize projects, drawings, photos, models, films, conferences, objects, books, magazines, in short, the whole world in which Achille has worked for more than 60 years, first with his brother Pier Giacomo, then since 1968, alone. This work was started thanks to the help of the historical collaborators of the Studio and today it is followed by Antonella Gornati who has worked closely with Achille Castiglioni for more than 20 years. Preserving all this heritage in a modern key means cataloguing, telling and sharing it with the wider public. At the same time the Foundation at the Studio Museum from Tuesday to Saturday (from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) organizes guided tours for individuals and groups.