Bertozzi & Casoni. Eternal and fragile presences

A Brillo soap-pad box has been turned into a dog kennel, and an English setter is lying in it. Both are ceramic. So are the tortoise, the deer whose antlers sprout flowering branches, and the skull whose long nose spears a stack of books, all placed around this 19th-century imitation of a Renaissance home.

There are 34 works, about ten of them made for these rooms, and none sits on a plinth. The director's argument is that the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers gave tableware the same rank as armour and paintings, so the ceramics sit among the furniture and arms. You walk the period rooms trying to tell which tray belongs to the house and which is glazed clay. The show is also Giampaolo Bertozzi's tribute to Stefano Dal Monte Casoni, who died in 2023.

It's included in the museum ticket (€14, reduced €10), Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, until 25 October. The show's page has a downloadable guide listing every work.