National Museum of Cinema

Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Location within Turin
Established	1958
Location	Mole Antonelliana, Via Montebello 20, -Turin, Italy
Type	Motion picture
Visitors	674,243 (2019)
Founder	Maria Adriana Prolo
Website	Official website

TheNational Museum of Cinema (Italian:Museo Nazionale del Cinema) located inTurin, Italy, is amotion picturemuseum inside theMole Antonelliana tower. It is operated by theMaria Adriana Prolo Foundation, and the core of its collection is the result of the work of the historian and collectorMaria Adriana Prolo. It was housed in thePalazzo Chiablese.

In 2008, with 532,196 visitors, it reached the thirteenth place among the most visited Italian museums.^[1]

The museum houses pre-cinematographic optical devices such asmagic 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 offilm crew, and in the main hall, fitted in the temple hall of the Mole (which was a building originally intended as asynagogue), a series ofchapels representing severalfilm genres.

The museum keeps a huge and growing collection offilm posters,stocks, and alibrary: 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 theMassimomultiplex, near to the museum, is reserved toretrospectives and other museum initiatives. The museum hosts severalfilm festivals, the major and most prestigious of them being theTorino 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.

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  The panoramic elevator inside theMole Antonelliana
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  Interior
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  Rotunda
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  Statue ofMoloch from the film "Cabiria" fromGiovanni Pastrone
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  Director's chair
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  Marilyn Monroe's photos and objects
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  Magic lantern
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  Federico Fellini's hat, red scarf, drawings and letters
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  Space scenario in honor ofWoody Allen
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  Red lab
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  The GodfatherPart II screenplay
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  Jurassic Park pre-production stop-motion diorama byTippett Studio
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  Wile E. Coyote
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  Tweety's cage
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  MGM logo
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  Boris Karloff's bust as the 1930sFrankenstein's monster
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  Lon Chaney Sr.'s bust as the 1920sErik (The Phantom of the Opera)
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  Titanus logo
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  Shadow Play
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  Larger than life vanity table display

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