Image: Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia
Brescia Musei has announced a retrospective dedicated to Cristina Mittermeier, the Mexican photographer, marine biologist and activist, at Castello di Brescia. Titled 'Cristina Mittermeier. La grande saggezza', the exhibition will run from 30 July 2026 to 17 January 2027 and bring together more than 80 photographs drawn from Mittermeier’s research-based practice.
The show is framed around themes of environmental respect and harmony between human beings and nature. According to the museum material, the exhibition explores these ideas through images of landscapes and biodiversity, presenting what the institution describes as a path through visually striking photographs that document the beauty of the planet and the living world. The exhibition title refers to 'La Grande Saggezza', or 'The Great Wisdom', a phrase the museum uses to identify the conceptual core of the retrospective.
The online exhibition page gives a broader context for Mittermeier’s work, describing a career spent travelling from one end of the world to the other and documenting both the natural world and indigenous communities. In that account, the photographer’s practice is linked to the idea of 'enoughness/abbastanza', a concept presented as a way of understanding human life within the global ecosystem and aligning decisions with the natural cycles of the living world. The source material also says the work draws on the “great wisdom” of communities that have lived in harmony with the environment for thousands of years.
The exhibition is listed on the Fondazione Brescia Musei website as opening at the Grande Miglio, Castello di Brescia, while the related visit-guided programme is identified as taking place at the Castello. The museum’s newsletter highlights guided visits on 23 July at 17:30, and the exhibition page sets out further dates for single visitors across the run, including evenings and morning slots later in 2026 and early 2027. The venue line in the event record places the exhibition at Castello di Brescia, Brescia.
Alongside the exhibition, Brescia Musei has scheduled a programme of guided visits for individual visitors. The dedicated page lists a series of appointments beginning on 30 July 2026 at 17:30 and continuing on selected dates through 9 January 2027. The visits are listed at a cost of 13 euros and are scheduled to last about one hour and 30 minutes.
The same week in the museum’s communications, Brescia Musei also pointed to other guided activities across its sites, including 'Franca Ghitti. Una storia di Altri Alfabeti' at Museo di Santa Giulia and 'Bruce Gilden. A Closer Look' at the same museum. Those items are presented separately from the Mittermeier retrospective in the institution’s weekly programme, where they appear as part of a broader summer calendar of exhibitions, family activities, and guided tours.
For 'Cristina Mittermeier. La grande saggezza', the verified details place the retrospective at Castello di Brescia from 30 July 2026 to 17 January 2027, with more than 80 photographs and guided visits available on selected dates throughout the exhibition period.
