Museum of Film

The Cinema Museum is one of the most original and unconventional museums in Turin. It is located in the high tower of Mole Antonellana, whose height is 167 meters. The Cinema Museum was established in 1991 on the initiative of the Piedmont region and the National Association of Museums. The founder of the Cinema Museum is the historian and collector Maria Adriana Prolo, who began to present his collection there.

The Cinema Museum has about 20,000 exhibits, drawings, various printed products, more than 25,000 books, 80,000 photographic materials, 12,000 films and 300,000 old posters, various educational games for children devoted to the topic of cinema. There are many interactive rooms in which visitors have the opportunity to become characters of famous movie plots.

On the lower floor of the museum there are red chairs, which have speakers in their backs, visitors can lie down in them and watch old movies on huge screens.