Forlì’s Museo Civico San Domenico hosts Lee Miller: Works 1930–1955 from 10 October 2026 to 10 January 2027. Curated by Walter Guadagnini, the exhibition brings together more than 160 photographs from the Lee Miller Archives, including lesser-known images, tracing a career that connects surrealism, fashion and war reporting.
Featured image: Lee Miller, Nusch Éluard seated on a car, Golfe Juan, France, 1937. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2026. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
Several careers, one photographer
The exhibition follows Miller from her Paris years with Man Ray through portrait and fashion photography in the United States and her time in Egypt. Experiments such as solarisation and her contact with surrealist artists provide a thread through these changes in place and subject.
These connections help explain why an unexpected detail or an unsettling arrangement can recur in very different settings. The show places artistic experimentation alongside professional commissions rather than treating them as separate careers.
Photography as wartime testimony
Working for Vogue during the Second World War, Miller photographed bomb-damaged London and later followed Allied troops as an accredited correspondent. Her European reporting included the concentration camps; accompanying texts also reveal her work as a journalist.
The exhibition offers a way to understand the relationship between these photographs and her earlier practice. The archival image accompanying this article is a historical photograph, not a view of the Forlì installation.
Visitor information
- Venue: Museo Civico San Domenico, piazza Guido da Montefeltro 12, Forlì.
- Dates: 10 October 2026–10 January 2027.
- Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 9:30am–7pm; weekends and public holidays, 9:30am–8pm. Closed Mondays and 25 December. The ticket office closes one hour earlier.
- Admission: €12 standard, €10 concessions; family ticket €28. Admission includes the permanent collections.
- Access: accessible museum routes and wheelchairs are available, according to the venue.
Special hours apply on 24 and 31 December, 9:30am–1:30pm, and 1 January, 2:30–8pm. The €3 audio guide is in Italian. Guided group visits in foreign languages can be arranged through the booking office; contact +39 329 5617174 or prenotazioni@mostrefotograficheforli.it in advance.
The venue lists city bus 6 from the railway station, alighting at Musei. See the exhibition page and visitor guide for concession eligibility and booking arrangements.
