Image: Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia
Fondazione Brescia Musei has announced a guided-visit programme for ‘Franca Ghitti | SEGNI. LE RADICI ANTICHE DEL CONTEMPORANEO’ at Museo di Santa Giulia in Brescia, with sessions scheduled from 29 August 2026 through 4 April 2027. The visits are presented as part of a show devoted to the Brescia-born artist Franca Ghitti, whose work is framed by the museum as a dialogue between contemporary art and historical heritage.
According to the museum information, the visit itinerary highlights how Ghitti’s works, made with wood, iron and recycled materials, intersect with the spaces and collections of Museo di Santa Giulia. The exhibition text also links her practice to the signs, symbols and memories of the Valle Camonica, where ancient languages and collective traditions are reactivated through artistic form. The programme is positioned around those relationships rather than around a single object or a one-time event.
The guided visits are listed as taking place at Museo di Santa Giulia, with the meeting point at the museum ticket office. The page gives a duration of about one hour and 30 minutes and sets the cost at 13 euros. The schedule currently published includes dates on 29 August, 26 September, 24 October, 28 November and 19 December 2026, followed by 30 January, 27 February and 3 April 2027.
The exhibition title itself foregrounds this historical tension: ‘SEGNI. LE RADICI ANTICHE DEL CONTEMPORANEO’ translates the museum’s emphasis on signs and deep-rooted origins in the contemporary. In the museum’s description, the route encourages visitors to reflect on the relationship between past and present, bringing archaeology, art and identity into the same interpretive frame. The language suggests a project that treats heritage not as backdrop, but as an active part of the reading of Ghitti’s work.
Franca Ghitti is identified by the museum as an artist from Brescia. The source material does not add biographical detail beyond that identification, but it does underline the material and conceptual vocabulary of her practice: reclaimed materials, carved signs and references to traditions associated with Valle Camonica. Those elements are presented as central to the exhibition’s structure and to the way the guided visits are meant to unfold.
The guided-visit programme should also be read alongside the museum’s broader summer and autumn calendar, which includes other fixed-date tours and special activities at Museo di Santa Giulia. Within that context, the Ghitti visits are one strand of an ongoing public programme rather than a standalone opening day. The published dates extend into spring 2027, with the final listed visit on 3 April 2027 and the exhibition page giving the run as 16 June 2026 to 4 April 2027 for ‘Franca Ghitti. Una storia di Altri Alfabeti’.
