Villa Necchi Campiglio

Villa Necchi Campiglio tickets: the house, the garden and a guide on your phone

Villa Necchi Campiglio was built with comforts unusual for the 1930s: a lift inside the house, a service tunnel for the staff and a porter’s lodge of its own.

Entry to the villa and garden is €18, or €9 for anyone aged 6 to 18 and for students up to 25. Under-6s go in free, and so do FAI members and disabled visitors. Temporary exhibitions aren’t included.

Inside, there’s no guide waiting for you. Texts, videos and podcasts in English, Italian and French play on your phone, so bring headphones. The house takes about an hour, and you should arrive ten minutes early.

Planning to see the other house museums as well? The Case Museo Card gives one entry to each of the four, Villa Necchi included, for €25.

Villa Necchi opening hours, and the café next door

The villa opens five days a week, the same all year, and has no air conditioning, which you’ll feel on a July or August afternoon. Its café, at Via Mozart 10, keeps much the same hours and also opens on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Portaluppi’s rooms on the ground floor

The rooms you walk through first are the ones Portaluppi, a Milanese architect, designed down to the furniture. In the entrance hall are Mario Sironi’s painting The Shepherd’s Family and Arturo Martini’s sculpture The Dead Lover, both from the Gian Ferrari collection, which was given to the FAI.

From there you go through the library, the salon, the veranda with its hothouse, the smoking room and the dining room. Look up as you go, at the ceilings worked in lozenges, and at the walls and furniture, where Portaluppi used marble, a stone called ceppo and even parchment.

Not every room is quite as Portaluppi left it. In 1938 another architect, Tomaso Buzzi, was called in and made some of them look older, with neoclassical details, tapestries and furniture in an aristocratic style.

Upstairs at Villa Necchi: the bathrooms and two art collections

The first floor has the family’s bedrooms and bathrooms, done in coloured marble and mirrors, and two guest apartments. Two more collections given to the FAI hang up here, and the visit carries on under the roof and out into the garden, past the pool and the tennis court. Until 29 November 2026 there’s also an exhibition of Portaluppi’s drawings, Piero Portaluppi: l’arte del disegno, though temporary shows aren’t part of our ticket.

How the Necchi-Campiglio family built their villa

The Necchi-Campiglio family were industrialists from Pavia, south of Milan, and Portaluppi built the house for them between 1932 and 1935.

In 2001 the sisters Gigina and Nedda Necchi gave the villa to the FAI, the Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano, which restores Italian monuments and opens them to the public. After its restoration it opened to visitors in May 2008.

Villa Necchi on the Case Museo Card and the YesMilano passes

Three passes include the villa.

For transport, the Duomo and the civic museums as well, the YesMilano passes go further than the house-museum card; Milan Pass and Milan’s city passes has them side by side.

Getting to Villa Necchi from Palestro metro

The villa is at Via Mozart 14. Palestro, on the red M1, is five minutes’ walk away, and the same stop serves the Natural History Museum in the public gardens. San Babila (M1 and M4) and Tricolore (M4) are about ten minutes away, and Montenapoleone (M3) about fifteen.

Buses 84, 96 and 97 run nearby, and trams 9 and 19 stop at Tricolore, eight minutes’ walk from the gate. There’s no parking at the villa and the area is a limited-traffic zone, so come by metro. For a wheelchair, there’s a ramp at the back, a lift and an accessible toilet, and the villa can set aside a parking space if you ask ahead.