The female Benedictine monastery of San Salvatore and Santa Giulia is the head of the museum.
It was founded in 753 AD by the Lombard king Desiderius. The complex occupies the north-east of the ancient city.
Emblematic is the case of the Basilica of San Salvatore (VIII century) with the underlying archaeological area (Roman domus, in use since the middle of the first half of the fifth century).
The area of the monastery, which includes the churches of Santa Maria in Solario (XII century) and Santa Giulia (XV - XVI cen.) and three Renaissance cloisters, was acquired, after the Napoleonic suppression, by the city of Brescia where in 1882, ushered in the church of Santa Giulia the Museum of the Cristian Age.

An enchanting monastery in the heart of Brescia is used for the Mille Miglia Museum, full of beautiful cars and immortal wheel axles. Mille Miglia Museum was opened to the public on November 10, 2004 and it is dedicated to the legendary car race of Brescia.
The initiative to create a museum dedicated to the Red Arrow has been promoted and realized by the Associazione Museo delle Mille Miglia Città di Brescia, specially composed by some "friends of the Mille Miglia" and by the Automobile Club of Brescia. The museum of the legendary race cars is located inside the Monastery of St. Euphemia, a splendid architectural complex on the outskirts of Brescia.
The museum dedicated to the Mille Miglia was born to let visitors know about an extraordinary sporting event and to show part of history, culture and custom in Italy from 1927 to 1957 with references and presentations of monuments, places and references to cities, provinces and regions crossed by the race in the various editions.
The museum is divided into nine periods, seven dedicated to the Mille Miglia 1927-1957, one to the Mille Miglia 1958-1961 and the last to the contemporary Mille Miglia.

It's one of the most important in Europe and is located in the castle of Brescia.
It was donated to the town of Brescia in 1965. The copious collection (about 580 pieces) makes it a good idea of the evolutionary process undergone by the weapons and armor from the XV and XVI century.
Among the thousands of pieces on display there are several armor, a hundred helmets, short and long arms, fifty long firearms, about ninety guns, 15 cannons and 150 accessories for firearms.

The first art gallery was opened in 1851 in Palazzo Tosio.
In 1884 the Count Leopard Martinengo da Barco left to the town library, his scientific and art collections and also his building (restored in the XVII-XVIII centuries on a sixteenth-century building).
In 1908, the two galleries were merged in Tosio Martinengo. The west facade opens onto the square where stands the monument to the painter Alessandro Bonvicino from Brescia, called Moret
to. The work of the sculptor Domenico Ghidoni in 1898.
In 1994 collections were put together to create a new museum which offers the history of Brescia from '300 to '700.
After a tribute to Paul Tosio, with a selection of his collection (there Raffaello stands out along with other Italian and foreign), the works offer a course that culminates in the great age of Renaissance in Brescia, from Foppa generation to Romanino, Moretto, Savoldo.