MOLE ANTONELLIANA, Cinema Museum Introduction

Inside the Mole you can visit the fascinating Museum of Cinema, which is one of the most important world wide for its richness of materials related to the origins of cinematography, and also for its layout.

It's interesting to note that the idea of creating a center for documenting the history of cinema dates back to eighty years ago, but it was only at the turn of the new millennium that the museum's new home was inaugurated in the Mole Antonelliana. Why in Turin? Because it was one of the first places in Europe where cinema developed.

The museum is one of the most visited and appreciated museums in Italy, and you'll soon understand why. Its goal is to preserve everything related to the content and technique of cinematography. So you'll learn a lot about the process that has led to the production of motion pictures, for example the optical machines that are the ancestors of movies including the fascinating and rare eighteenth-century magical lanterns, and various memorabilia coming from the sets of the first Italian films....