Düsseldorf Film Museum

The Cinema Museum, located in the German city of Düsseldorf, is the only museum in North Rhine-Westphalia, a district of Germany, with a state collection of films. It was opened in 1993 on the embankment of the Rhine River and is located in a three-storey building built in Art Nouveau style using concrete and brick.

In the exposition of the cinema museum you can see clothes in which played their brilliant roles Catherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, costumes from the famous film Akiro Kurosawa “Dreams”. The exhibits of the museum offer to learn the history of the development of cinema and the biography of famous people associated with cinema. Here you can see the camera obscura of the 1880s, cameras of the early XXth century and modern, visit the model of the set.

One of the most valuable exhibits of the museum is a unique collection of 500 figures of Asian shadow theaters of the Middle Ages. The Black Box cinema, located on the first floor of the museum, invites you to visit sessions of silent films, accompanied by a self-playing organ.