In the footsteps of Marco Polo at Fort Bard
Photographs by Michael Yamashita, from 20 November 2026 to 28 February 2027
This winter, Fort Bard is hosting a photography exhibition devoted to Marco Polo’s journey. The pictures are by Michael Yamashita, an American photographer who has worked with National Geographic for more than forty years.
A journey across Asia in 88 photographs
The exhibition brings together 88 photographs. They follow the route described in The Travels of Marco Polo, known in Italy as the Milione: from Italy through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, China and India. Accompanying texts give background on the history, the art and the places along the way.
Old objects displayed beside the photos
Alongside the photographs, the architect Michelangelo Lupo has gathered a few historical and scientific pieces. Visitors can see an early Italian edition of the Milione, lent by the Queriniana library in Brescia, and a portrait of Marco Polo painted in 1849 by Annibale Strata, on loan from the provincial museums of Gorizia. There is also a copy of the traveller’s will, an armillary sphere from the sixteenth or seventeenth century and a nineteenth-century English terrestrial globe.
The exhibition is organised by Fort Bard with Orion57. The opening is on Thursday 19 November 2026 at 6 pm.
Practical information
- Dates: 20 November 2026 to 28 February 2027.
- Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10 am–6 pm; Saturday, Sunday and public holidays, 10 am–7 pm; closed on Mondays.
- Price: €15 full price, €12 reduced (over-65s and 19 to 25-year-olds). The ticket also gives access to two other exhibition spaces of your choice.
- Free: for under-18s and for holders of the Musei Piemonte Valle d’Aosta and Musei Lombardia Valle d’Aosta passes and of the Fort Bard membership card.
Source: Valledaostaglocal.
Main photo: Roroke, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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