House of the Humiliated

The Civic Museums of Monza were founded in 1935 to exhibit to the public – at the time in some rooms of the Villa Reale – a selection of the civic heritage of works of art that the Municipality, through purchases and important bequests, has gradually accumulated starting from end of the 19th century. The Civic Museums reopen to the public in June 2014 inside the Casa degli Umiliati - a historic building linked in the Middle Ages to the religious order of the Umiliati - restored and used as a museum. In the cloister and in the rooms of the museum, 140 works of art are exhibited which retrace through significant testimonies - from archaeological pieces to bronze sculptures, from large paintings to contemporary art installations - the historical and artistic events of the city of Monza against the backdrop of the most important Italian and European artistic phenomena.