News and Events - Musil Brescia

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 [...]

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 [...]

The musil – "Lodovico Giordani" Iron Museum presents a calendar of evening events, a concert, an urban walk, and a weekend of screenings dedicated to historical animation for the month of September. The initiatives take place at its headquarters in the San Bartolomeo District, at Via del Manestro 107, in Brescia.

Program

• September 6, from 8:30 PM – "Museum at Night"
  Discovering a city's heritage in a special light.
• September 12, 8:30 PM – "A World of Colors"
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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

Museum [...]

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 [...]