Museum of Senses Milano – arcHITects srl

LOCATION: MILAN, ITALY
YEAR: 2025
TYPE: MUSEUM

INTERACTIVE MUSEUM

Museum of Senses

arcHITects conceived the Museum of Senses Milano as a “perception engine” rather than a museum: three stacked floors, gently spiralling upward inside the shell at Viale Monte Grappa 10, guide visitors from daylight into a calibrated twilight where walls, floors and ceilings all become instruments of sensory provocation. The existing concrete frame was stripped to its raw rhythm, then wrapped in acoustically porous panels and a translucent façade that glows after dusk, signalling an urban observatory of the senses in the fast-evolving Porta Garibaldi district.

Inside, each gallery is tuned to a single faculty: a corridor that bleaches colour from the retina, a chamber where water appears to flow upward, and a mirrored maze that forces the body to redraw its spatial map. Optical illusions, tactile floors, scent curtains and balance-defying platforms invite children and adults alike to question what they trust most—sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing and equilibrioception—before restoring them to the city with sharpened awareness.

Project by arcHITects srl / Piantini
Ph. L. Privitera