National Cinema Museum Turin Visitor's Guide

Visitors Guide in English for the National Cinema Museum (Museo Nazionale del Cinema) in Turin. There are detailed entries on the museum's founder Maria Adriana Prolo and its iconic Mole Antonelliana building. There is a comprehensive section on the pre-cinema collections of optical media in the museum including shadows, optics, peepshows, stereoscopes, panoramas, magic lantern and phantasmagoria, photography, Muybridge and Marey and the birth of cinema. This features illustrations from both Prolo's collection and that of the Barnes Brothers, which was acquired by the museum in the 1990s. The guide also covers the museum galleries entitled 'the cinema machine' on aspects of film production and its poster collections. Part 2 is a pull out leaflet in English on the different galleries in the museum; part 3 is a leaflet in Italian on the museum's activities for schools and children and part 4 is a leaflet in Italian on the research facilities owned by the museum elsewhere in Turin, the Bibliomediateca Mario Gromo.