The Arengario Palace is a complex of two symmetrical buildings located in Piazza del Duomo

Piazza del Duomo, Milan

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, the central plaza of Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy

Italy

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. It was completed in the 1950s and currently houses the Museo del Novecento, a museum dedicated to 20th century art. The word "arengario

Arengario

The Italian word arengario refers to government buildings of different historic periods...

" refers to its original function as a local government seat in the Fascist

Italian Fascism

Italian Fascism also known as Fascism with a capital "F" refers to the original fascist ideology in Italy. This ideology is associated with the National Fascist Party which under Benito Mussolini ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943, the Republican Fascist Party which ruled the Italian...

 era.

History

The Arengario Palace was designed by architects Piero Portaluppi, Giovanni Muzio

Giovanni Muzio

Giovanni Muzio was an Italian architect. Muzio was born and died in Milan and is most closely associated with the Novecento Italiano group....

, Pier Giulio Magistretti e Enrico Agostino Griffini. The construction began in 1936, but experienced several delays and suffered from the World War II

World War II

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 bombings; it was eventually completed in 1956. The facade is decorated with bas reliefs by Arturo Martini

Arturo Martini

Arturo Martini was a leading Italian sculptor between World War I and II. He moved between a very vigorous classicism and modernism. He was associated with public sculpture in fascist Italy, but later renounced his medium altogether.-Futurism:Martini seems to have been an active supporter of the...

.

In the 2000s, the palace was restored and adapted (by architects Italo Rota and Fabio Fornasari) to house the Museo del Novecento, inaugurated in 2010. The museum is especially renowned for its unique collection of futurist

Futurism

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 paintings. During the restoration works, a "media facade" (i.e., a 487 m² LED

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screen displaying news on upcoming events, advertising, and more) has been affixed to the facade on the lefthand side building.