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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 [...]
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, the light spectrum will be discussed: from infrared, to visible light, up to ultraviolet. And starting from the latter, we will focus on a natural phenomenon that we [...]
Also this summer, the Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Energy Museum will host a rich program of exhibitions, screenings, and events: a space with 70s and 80s video games with evenings on the history of computing, the secrets of light and stars, but also theater and a Carosello weekend.
In August, the museum will be open every day from 2 PM to 7 PM.
Electronics and video games are at the heart of MUSIL Cedegolo's 2025 summer: from July 11, thanks to the collaboration with the [...]
On the occasion of the 7th Yellow Night of Cedegolo which will be held on Saturday, June 14, 2025, Musil - Cedegolo Hydroelectric Energy Museum will be open from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM with reduced admission for everyone at 3.00 €.
The right occasion to visit the museum and the exhibition Convivium!
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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
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The MUSIL - Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Energy Museum hosts the Lectio Magistralis "Cultivating Taste", by Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Association and the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo.
The event, organized as part of the exhibition Convìvium - Act One, will be held on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 5:00 PM at the Museum, in Via Roma no. 48 in Cedegolo (BS).
Museum admission: € 6.00.
For information and reservations: cedegolo@ [...]