After the death of Fausto and Giuseppe, the Bagatti Valsecchi family home continued to be inhabited by their descendents until 1974. In that year, Pasino, one of Giuseppe’s children who was by then in his seventies, decided to create the Bagatti Valsecchi Foundation to which he donated the patrimony of art his ancestors had collected. At the same time, the mansion was sold to the region of Lombardy with the clause that the historic displays on the first floor were to be preserved “as is” in order to preserve the unbreakable tie between the “container” (the spaces) and the “contained” (the furnishings and art collections), one of the distinctive traits of the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers' collecting efforts. Twenty years later, in 1994, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum was opened to the public.
