Collections

The Archaeology of Cinema collection tells us about the spectacular universe that entertained audiences of all ages and social classes before the birth of the cinema: so many different stories that gave rise to a colourful, surprising and eccentric world reproduced through Chinese shadows, optical boxes, magic lanterns...

The collection recounts a story with very broad boundaries: on the one hand it portrays the more technical side of filming, on the other hand it also touches on the history of sound reproduction and especially that of photography to which a large section is devoted...

This rich collection that traces back through the history of cinema and the art of photography consists of over 1,500,000 images. Historical photographs offer a wide panorama of the production in Italy from 1840 to 1940 and documents the work of top photographers...

The collection amounts to about 540,000 items, ranging from posters, playbills and various promotional materials produced for film launches. Together, they document the history of cinema and film-poster design, from the silent era to the most recent productions.

The collection features a wide variety of materials: costumes, sets and pre-production objects, sketches for set designs and costumes, animation drawings on acetate, masks and models documenting the various stages of film processing and production...
 

The Museum's film collection, a rare and valuable heritage, began to take shape in 1942, when Maria Adriana Prolo purchased its first film print for 30 lire.

A documentation centre on cinema and photography among the most prestigious in Europe for its size and the variety of its collections, a point of reference for the study of the history of cinema, archaeology of cinema and photography...

The Video Archives offers the public the opportunity of choosing from thousands of films, from Hollywood’s classics to masterpieces of Italian cinema...

The Museum owns a rich collection of around 3,000 records connected to cinema in several ways, from the heavy 78 rpm to the more classic 33 and 45 rpm. Through the soundtracks of hundreds of films, signed by great composers, one can explore the history of music for movies, but not only...

A documentary collection of unparalleled richness and significance, both in scope and content, the Archive preserves unique and previously unpublished materials relating to the history of cinema.

The history of cinema and video games is full of mutual influences. The two forms of entertainment have, over time, borrowed characters, settings, atmospheres, great stories from each other...