Milan Design Week includes 3 different events taking place during the same week in April: Salone del Mobile, the furniture fair for professionals of the furniture and design sector, Brera Design Week and Fuorisalone.
It is one of the most exciting weeks to visit Milan.
- What is Fuorisalone
- When is Fuorisalone this year
- Fuorisalone Passport
- This years’s theme
- Where does Fuorisalone take place
What Fuorisalone is
Fuorisalone is a week packed with exciting exhibitions, installations, and cocktail parties and for this one week the public has access to buildings that are normally closed. Thousands of tourists come to Milan for this, so book your accomodation well in advance.
Fuorisalone emerged spontaneously in the 80s around all the small and big – established and independent – furniture designers and has no governing organ.
In 1991 the first guide to the events and a logo were created, and in 2003 the website with all relevant information about the events was made.
When it takes place.
Fuorisalone 2026 is on April 20th-26th.
This year’s events are here.
Fuorisalone Passport
Starting January 2026 you can register for the fuorisalone passport, here you can find events ,sign up for the ones you are interested in and keep track of what is happening when and where you have already been – you still have to queue, but everything is simpler with the passport. Fuorisalone Passport is a web app.
Theme
Fuorisalone has a new, overarching theme every year.
The theme for 2026 is “be the project – leading change through vision and responsibility”.
The design districts
- Brera Design District (find on map)
- 5Vie (find on map)
- Tortona (find on map)
- Durini (find on map) – make sure to visit the Università Statale (find on map)
- Isola (find on map)
- Porta Venezia (find on map)
- Milan central Station with Dropcity (find on map) and Dimorecentrale (find on map)
- Sarpi (the area between Via Paolo Sarpi (find on map), ADI Design museum (find on map) and Fabbrica del vapore (find on map)