News and Events - Musil Brescia

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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MUSIL hosts, in the evocative spaces of its Cedegolo headquarters, an exhibition dedicated to the Olympic Games and the culture of sport. 

The initiative is part of the Project “EMOTION OF THE GAMES - CULTURES THROUGH SPORT - Itineraries in Lombardy for the «Cultural Olympics»”, promoted by Lombardy Region – Culture Directorate, realized by FICTS - Fédération Internationale Cinéma Télévision Sportifs as part of the Cultural Olympiad of the [...]

On Friday, August 22, 2025, at 8:30 PM, the Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Energy Museum (at Via Roma no. 48 in Cedegolo) will host the show "My Brother on the Trees".

Centopercento Teatro presents a theatre and aerial acrobatics show in which a child named Biagio divides himself into three and tries to confront his mythical and revolutionary older brother Cosimo, who had decided never to set foot on the ground again.

“I will not come down anymore!” thus, from the branch of an oak tree, a [...]

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August 2025 from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM at MUSIL - Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Energy Museum (in via Roma n.48 in Cedegolo) will host "Carousel Weekend", a two-day non-stop event featuring the most famous Italian TV program: dozens of animations with Caio Gregorio, Tacabanda, Gringo, and many others.

Admission: full price €6.00, reduced price €4.00, free from the 2nd child (included) onwards, free for children under 6 years old.

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Sunday, August 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM at MUSIL - Hydroelectric Energy Museum of Valle Camonica (in via Roma no. 48 in Cedegolo) will host "Star-gazing: St. Lawrence's Night at the Telescope", the starry sky observed with a telescope on the most magical night of the year, St. Lawrence's Night.
With Prof. Andrea Zamboni (MUSIL's educational manager).

Admission: full price €6.00, reduced €4.00, free from the 2nd child (inclusive) onwards, free under 6 years old.
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MUSIL organizes an evening to explore the figure of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian (later naturalized American) physicist and electrical engineer, famous for his discoveries and inventions in the field of electromagnetism.

At 6:00 PM, the evening begins with a historical and scientific overview of Tesla's figure, led by Andrea Zamboni (MUSIL's educational manager).

At 8:30 PM, there will be a screening of the film "Tesla's Tree": the story of the great scientist's [...]

On Friday, August 1, we will discover a story of innovation with strong Italian characteristics: before Sega and Nintendo, before Commodore and Atari, various Italian companies already produced electronic devices to play at home with the television. This is their forgotten story. The guide will be Andrea Contato, a fiction and non-fiction writer, researcher, and video game enthusiast.

"It is common belief that video games and home consoles were born in the United States, then exploded thanks [...]

“Olivetti, a Story of Machines, Electronics, and Ideas”.

The life and ideas of Adriano Olivetti in parallel with the history of Olivetti, 
from typewriters to the Programma 101,
 the first personal computer in history.

History and heritage of IT technologies
 still at the heart of MUSIL's cultural activities.

Collaboration between MUSIL and MMN – Magnetica Media Network SpA is strengthened.

Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Power Museum - July [...]