NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CINEMA

The Cinema Museum is considered one of the most important and suggestive in the world, not only for the heritage it preserves but also for the uniqueness of its exhibition layout, being hosted by one of the most important symbols of the city of Turin, the Mole Antonelliana.

The museum spirals upwards on several exhibition levels tracing the history of cinema, from its origins to modern times, involving visitors in an interactive journey made up of projections, plays of light and exhibition spaces in which to discover the secrets hidden behind the first projection techniques up to today's spectacular special effects.

The first project to build an Italian film museum dates back to 1941 when the scholar Maria Adriana Prolo started working on the idea. Thanks to the collaboration of important directors, set designers, journalists and entrepreneurs from the world of cinema, and the support of Henri Langlois, founder of the Cinématheque française and the Musée du cinéma in Paris, the Associazione del Museo del Cinema was founded in 1953, with its headquarters in Palazzo Chiablese. Maria Adriana Prolo became its president and director for life.

The Museum was moved to its current location in the Mole in 1995, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of cinema, and inaugurated in 2000.

 

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