News and Events - Musil Brescia

On Friday, May 9, 2025, at 8:30 PM, at the Iron Museum (in Via del Manestro n.107 in the San Bartolomeo district in Brescia), there will be a screening of the film "Islands of Stories in Liquid Memories".

The film traces the history of water sites in the Mompiano and Costalunga areas: the mills, the old washhouses, the paper mill, and the lost hammer mill of Mompiano.

Directed by: Carla Fausti
Music by: Andrea Bettini
Produced by: Pro Loco Mompiano
Duration: 45 min

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Starting from May 1st, 2025, ironworking, a distinctive feature of the local identity, finds its exhibition space in the city: the “Lodovico Giordani” Iron Museum of San Bartolomeo permanently reopens its doors. 

The museum is located in a forge with an attached iron tool grinding workshop, repurposed for museum use by Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana since the mid-1980s. Granted on loan to Fondazione MUSIL, the spaces now host a historical reconstruction in dialogue with the present: from [...]