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National Museum of Cinema

Italian motion picture museum

Field	Value
name	National Museum of Cinema
native_name	Museo Nazionale del Cinema
native_name_lang	it
image	Mole Antonelliana in Turin.jpg
map_type	Italy Turin
established	1958
type	Motion picture
location	Italy Mole Antonelliana, Via Montebello 20, - Turin, Italy
visitors	674,243 (2019)
founder	Maria Adriana Prolo
website	Official website

The National Museum of Cinema () located in Turin, Italy, is a motion picture museum inside the Mole Antonelliana tower. It is operated by the Maria Adriana Prolo Foundation, and the core of its collection is the result of the work of the historian and collector Maria Adriana Prolo. It was housed in the Palazzo Chiablese.

In 2008, with 532,196 visitors, it reached the thirteenth place among the most visited Italian museums.

Exhibition

The museum houses pre-cinematographic optical devices such as magic lanterns, earlier and current film technologies, stage items from early Italian movies and other memorabilia.

Along the exhibition path of about 35.000 square feet (3.200 m2) on five levels, it is possible to visit some areas devoted to the different kinds of film crew, and in the main hall, fitted in the temple hall of the Mole (which was a building originally intended as a synagogue), a series of chapels representing several film genres.

The museum keeps a huge and growing collection of film posters, stocks, and a library: at present it includes 20,000 devices, paintings and printed artworks, more than 80,000 pictures, over 300,000 film posters, 12,000 movie reels and 26,000 books (as of February 2006). A movie screen located in the Massimo multiplex, near to the museum, is reserved to retrospectives and other museum initiatives. The museum hosts several film festivals, the major and most prestigious of them being the Torino Film Festival.

Inside the museum there is also a panoramic elevator (opened in 2000) with transparent glass walls, that cover its 75 meters ride in 59 seconds, in the single open space span of the building, without middle floors, up to the "small temple" which gives a 360 degrees panoramic view of the city. It is the museum with the biggest vertical extension of the world.

Gallery

File:Museo nazionale del Cinema di Torino.jpg|The panoramic elevator inside the Mole Antonelliana File:Museo nazionale del Cinema (Turin).jpg|Interior File:Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin (5283426452).jpg|Rotunda File:Le musée du cinéma (Turin) (2872425749).jpg|Statue of Moloch from the film "Cabiria" from Giovanni Pastrone File:Torino, Museo nazionale del cinema - Sedia da regista (2606573543).jpg|Director's chair File:Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin (5283414074).jpg File:Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin (5282815037).jpg File:Marilyn Monroe au musée du cinéma (Turin) (2873252536).jpg|Marilyn Monroe's photos and objects File:Torino, Museo nazionale del cinema - Lanterna Magica (2570305244).jpg|Magic lantern File:Federico Fellini au musée du cinéma (Turin) (2872423889).jpg|Federico Fellini's hat, red scarf, drawings and letters File:Le musée du cinéma (Turin) (2872424291).jpg|Space scenario in honor of Woody Allen File:Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin - Red lab (4151867815).jpg|Red lab File:The Godfather Screenplay.JPG|The Godfather Part II screenplay File:Museo Cinema Torino - Jurassic Park step motion diorama.jpg|Jurassic Park pre-production stop-motion diorama by Tippett Studio File:Torino, Museo nazionale del cinema - Chi sarà mai passato da questa porta? (487912322).jpg|Wile E. Coyote File:Le musée du cinéma (Turin) (2872423299).jpg|Tweety's cage File:Torino, Museo nazionale del cinema - MGM (2607392834).jpg|MGM logo File:Le musée du cinéma (Turin) (2872425027).jpg File:Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin (5282830195).jpg|Boris Karloff's bust as the 1930s Frankenstein's monster File:Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin (5283430424).jpg|Lon Chaney Sr.'s bust as the 1920s Erik (The Phantom of the Opera) File:Simbolo Titanus.jpg|Titanus logo File:Teatro delle ombre.jpg|Shadow Play File:Larger than Life vanity table display at the National Museum of Cinema.jpg|Larger than life vanity table display

References

[http://static.touring.it/store/document/21_file.pdf Touring Club Italiano - Dossier Musei 2009] {{webarchive. link. (2012-04-18)

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