News and Events - Musil Brescia

On Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM at the Iron Museum "Lodovico Giordani" in San Bartolomeo, Via del Manestro n.107 in Brescia, will host Voices on Stage. A workshop for adults and children, curated by Giorgia Novellini: short scenes from cartoons and films without audio are re-dubbed by participants. Fun guaranteed with free and imaginative interpretations.

registration recommended,

For information and registration: sanbartolomeo@musilbrescia.it - Tel. 340 60 86 855

In 1965, Ori Martin experimented with continuous casting in its Brescia plant. It was the first plant in Italy after the one developed by Danieli for Riva in 1964. The new system spread quickly: Stefana Fratelli, Fenotti & Comini, Ilfo, Iro, Leali, Valsabbia, in short, the new technology made a significant increase in steel production possible. Sixty years after a crucial innovation, the objective of the study day is to place this technical turning point [...]

MUSIL presents "White Line Fever: the music of American truckers", a lecture-concert by Michele Dal Lago and Alle B. Goode.

The event will take place Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM at the  "Lodovico Giordani" Iron Museum in San Bartolomeo (at Via del Manestro no.107 in Brescia).

For information: sanbartolomeo@musilbrescia.it - Tel. 340 60 86 855.

On Saturday, October 4, 2025, from 5:00 PM, "Work Stories" will be held at the "Lodovico Giordani" Iron Museum (in via del Manestro n.107 in Brescia). Global and domestic, yesterday and today: two faces of contemporary work through the documentary cinema of the Roberto Gavioli National Competition, a prize and archive promoted by MUSIL since 2008.

"Nimble fingers", by Parsifal Reparato, tells the story of migrant women workers in the factories of the [...]

October at musil – "Lodovico Giordani" Iron Museum of San Bartolomeo: a month of screenings, music, a study day, and workshops open to adults and children. Below is the complete program with dates and times. 

• October 4 – Stories of Work | Screenings
  5:00 PM – Nimble Fingers, by Parsifal Reparato, Italy–Vietnam (52’). The work of young Vietnamese women in hi-tech factories.
  6:00 PM – Banzavois, by Lorenzo Casali, Italy (74’ [...]

On Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September 2025, the San Bartolomeo Iron Museum presents “Animated Weekend”, a non-stop two-day event (from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM) featuring Gamma Film animations, a treasure of creativity preserved by MUSIL: dozens of “caroselli” (short animated commercials) and animated films such as The Long Green Stocking and The Ballad of the West are scheduled.

A walk through the waters north of Brescia, starting from the historic Mompiano Spring, passing through the Garza and Bova rivers, up to the Iron Museum.
- Meeting point: 9:00 AM, Mompiano metro station.
- After visiting the Spring with an A2A technician, the route will be divided into 3 stages, with residents sharing their stories of the place.
- Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes.

The initiative is promoted by MUSIL and the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences of the National [...]

On Saturday, September 20, 2025, at 6:00 PM, at the Iron Museum "Lodovico Giordani" in San Bartolomeo (via del Manestro n.107 in Brescia), the "Flute Solo" concert with Laura Bersani will take place.

A member of the Altrevoci Ensemble, Laura Bersani’s extensive international activity includes the very recent recording of An Index of Metals, the latest work by composer Fausto Romitelli.

Artistic Direction: Rossano Pinelli

PROGRAM
J.S. Bach - Partita [...]

Friday 12 September 2025 in Milan, at the CNR Milan 1 Research Area (via A. Corti n. 12) will host the Conference "Reinventing Industrial Museums for a new image of ITaly". 

This is a moment of reflection among scholars and experts on the potential of Industrial Museums and the culture of work, to exchange experiences and good practices to reinvent their role and strengthen their community dimension, so as to make them more resilient to crisis factors.

The Conference [...]

MUSIL organizes an evening to look with new eyes at our most used sense: sight.

A playful lesson for adults and children starting from a question: can we always trust what we see? From optical illusions the easy answer.

In the second part, to be carried out strictly in the dark, with numerous experiments and demonstrations, we will talk about the light spectrum: from infrared, to visible light, up to ultraviolet. And starting from the latter, we will focus on a natural [...]