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Brescia museum born from the Cinefotoclub, with historic cameras, daguerreotypes and film equipment; free admission.
October 10, 2026 – November 8, 2026
Retrospective devoted to the photographer from Gussago, who since 1969 has captured mountains, nature and urban landscapes through colour, with single shots without any further processing.
October 10, 2026 – November 8, 2026
Photographs by Chantal Peiano showing Paris with an ironic and unconventional gaze.
October 10, 2026 – November 8, 2026
A photographic series made up of fragments which, when joined together, form a sequence.
October 10, 2026 – November 8, 2026
Historical exhibition curated by Gabriele Chiesa, with works by Zahra Rastekar collected in three volumes.
October 10, 2026 – November 8, 2026
Historical postcards from the museum archive with views of Brescia.
The museum grew out of the activity of the Cinefotoclub Brescia, an association of amateur photographers founded in 1953, whose first donation was a group of seven cameras. The idea of a public museum took shape in the 1980s, starting from the material collected by the club.
The exhibition space is in vicolo San Faustino, in the centre of Brescia, while a room for exhibitions and lectures is housed in contrada del Carmine, next to the church of the same name. Admission is free for individuals and groups.
The permanent display includes more than eight thousand pieces, among them photographic and film cameras and filming and darkroom equipment. The route presents amateur cinema, with equipment also used by NASA; the history of photography from the camera obscura to the first daguerreotypes and autochromes; cameras arranged by manufacturer, such as Leica, Zeiss Ikon and Kodak; and photographic technique. A collection of about 150 daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and ferrotypes made between 1839 and the late 19th century is presented as the only such collection open to the public in Italy. The museum also has an archive of about 60,000 photographs and a library of about 8,000 volumes on photography and cinema.
Admission is free.
Admission to the museum is free for individual visitors and groups; guided tours are also free.
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| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Guided tours and school visits by booking: please state the number of participants and, for schools, the name and address of the institution or group. |
