The Vivian Maier/Ugo Nespolo exhibits at Rome’s Historic Italian Military Engineers’ Museum, October 30th, 2025

From October 31st, 2025 to February 15th, 2026 Rome’s Historic Italian Military Engineers’ Museum will be hosting the Vivian Maier/Ugo Nespolo exhibits.

 
This is a first for the Military Museum as it will be also used for other exhibits.  The Museum itself was built in Rome during the 1937-1940 period (just as WWII was about to tragically unfold).  Some of the original military hardware also includes Guglielmo Marconi’s original radio-telegraphic equipment. 

 
Covering 23,000 square meters the Museum is currently hosting two rather original art exhibits: one is dedicated to the late, great street photographer  “Vivian Maier. The Exhibition”.  Over 200 color and B/W photos are on hand, from a total of 150,000 negatives and 3,000 prints which had been discovered in 2007 by John Maloof, a real estate agent.  Maier died just two years later on April 21^st, 2009 (she was born on February 1st, 1926) after the discovery of her amazing archive (and to think that at one point in her life, after having also worked for 40 years as a nanny, Maier had not earned a whole lot of money from the world of photography).  She had photographed for decades, first with her trustworthy Rolleiflex and then with her 35 mm Leica cameras, daily life in both Chicago and New York.

The other Museum’s display is by 84 year-old Italian artist Ugo Nespolo and his “Pop Air” exhibit.   Nespolo has taken famous works of art by artists such as Pomodoro, Koons, Kusama, Modigliani, Botero, Rodin and others and has transformed them into his own works of contemporary art.