Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Second phase

Client

Mole Antonelliana
City of Torino
Fundazione Maria Adriana Prolo

Partners

Architect: Studio LLTT
Scenography: Atelier confino
Consultant: Fabrizio Sabelli

Attendance

600000 visitors per year

Description

A museum in the center of Turin with an exceptional collection and a staging of the cinema. In the center of Turin, the Mole Antonelliana was built in the 19th century, an architectural curiosity that was, before the Eiffel Tower, the tallest building in the world. It was intended to be a synagogue but was eventually given to the city by the bloodless Jewish community. It remained empty until the City inherited the fabulous collection of Maria Adriana Prolo at her death. Certainly the most beautiful collection in the world of objects, posters, memories on the pre-cinema, the cinema, the photo, which allowed to develop a very rich museography. The city of Turin turned to the agency Confino and entrusted the project to him in November 1998 for a realization in record time. The ex-religious vocation of the building was emphasized with a bit of humor by transforming it into a temple of the cinema and by creating in particular «chapels» dedicated to various themes.