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For Liberation Day, all museums in Brescia will be open to the public from 9am to 6pm
On the occasion of the national holidays of 25 April and May 1st, Municipality of Brescia and Brescia Museums Foundation offer a rich program of opportunities to take advantage of the time available and enjoy the heritage and cultural offerings of the city’s museums. On both days, all the museums – Santa Giulia Museum, Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery, Leonessa d’Italia Risorgimento Museum, Brixia. Archaeological Park of Roman Brescia, Luigi Marzoli Weapons Museum – will be open to the public from 9am to 6pm (last entry 5.15pm).
At the Santa Giulia Museum, hub of the VII edition of the Brescia Photo Festival, it will be possible to visit the important monographic exhibition dedicated to Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933), one of the pioneers of color photography, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. The great exhibition, entitled Franco Fontana. Colour, curated by Studio Franco Fontana, promoted by Fondazione Brescia Musei and co-produced with Skira Arte, presents 122 images created by the Maestro between 1961 and 2017.
Also at the Santa Giulia Museum, the public will be able to visit the exhibition which commemorates, on its fiftieth anniversary, the Piazza della Loggia massacre, entitled Maurizio Galimberti. Brescia, Piazza Loggia 1974: it is promoted by the Brescia Musei Foundation and Ma.Co.f., and curated by Renato Corsini, and was developed by Maurizio Galimberti drawing inspiration from images provided by the Casa della Memoria Archive, by the Historical Archive Silvano Cinelli and from the Corsini/Ferrari Archive.
In the precious Fresco Rooms of the Santa Giulia Museum – for some years now also dedicated to hosting exhibitions linked to contemporary art – it will be possible to visit the Gabriele Micalizzi exhibition, inaugurated on 23 April. Legacy. Matter-History-Identity, one of the most anticipated events of the seventh edition of the Brescia Photo Festival. The exhibition itinerary, curated specifically for Brescia and which can be accessed freely along the UNESCO Corridor, offers an exciting journey, through 50 images, some of which have never been published before, into the visual universe of one of the most important war reporters of our time, among the founders of the Cesura collective, and author of shots with humanitarian, social and artistic themes.
On the occasion of the holidays, the Brescia Musei Foundation is offering a special guided tour of these three important exhibition proposals: a journey through the gaze of three artists and their ability to be Witnesses, documenting the present and encouraging the reading of our history, a story that translates into a work of art that goes beyond the boundaries of the photographic medium. Appointments are scheduled for Thursday 25 April and Wednesday 1 May at 4.00 pm and Saturday 28 April at 3.00 pm.
At 10.30 on Thursday at the Vantiniano cemetery there will be the laying of wreaths at the Partisan Shrine and Holy Mass. The celebrations then move to Piazza Loggia, the hub of the day’s meeting. At 3.45pm there will be a concert by the city band, at 4.30pm the meeting of the partisan, military and combatant associations, citizens and delegations of the Municipalities with the banners begins; at 5pm it will be time to lay the wreaths on the tombstones of Palazzo Loggia, to the Fallen in Piazza della Loggia and to the Fallen of the city of Brescia for freedom in Largo Formentone.
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April 24, 2024 (changed April 24, 2024 | 11:34)
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