Located in central Milan, between Piazza della Scala, Via Manzoni and Via Morone, four distinguished historic buildings were connected and renovated to house the Intesa Sanpaolo and Fondazione Cariplo collections of 19th and 20th century painting. These buildings embody the city’s urban and architectural development between the end of 18th century and the early decades of the 20th. The exhibition design is divided into sections, which take up and actualize the relation between the furniture and the architectural container peculiar to the period in which each building was built. Public access is from Piazza Scala, where the old interiors of the Banca Commerciale Italiana were adapted to house the twentieth century collections. Next, the nineteenth century galleries, arranged according to subjects, follow an initial sequence of rooms in Palazzo Anguissola Antona Traversi and continue, through a new glazed courtyard into a second suite of ten rooms in Palazzo Brentani.