MIAC, the Italian Audiovisual and Cinema Museum, will open in Cinecittà in December.

Rome will have a new Italian Audiovisual and Cinema Museum (MIAC): it will occupy the building once home to the Development and Printing Laboratory, where so much of Italian cinema history has passed over the years.

The MIAC will cover 1650 square meters and will be Rome’s first multimedia, interactive and immersive museum entirely dedicated to the genre; it will range from the origins of cinema to the films that made up the great archives of our country to the arrival of television and the birth and development of the new digital image, through different thematic areas, such as power, music, comedy, language, and Eros.

Previewed in the presence of MiBACT Minister Dario Franceschini, the museum is funded by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, and is produced by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, in partnership with Rai Teche and CSC - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna, AAMOD - Audiovisual Archive of the Workers’ and Democratic Movement, National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Cineteca del Friuli, Mediaset, under the patronage of SIAE.

The museum tour will begin at the box office, a waiting room, and then enter the Emotions Room, where one is catapulted into the center of a movie theater with the projection screen behind it in which scenes from different film genres alternate. After the Conveyor Ribbon, where visitors will be invited to write on screens, we come to the Timeline to retrace the main events, dates and seasons of Italian cinema; this is followed by the Actors and Actresses Room and the History Room, where a multitude of frames will rearrange the collective historical memory. It continues in thematic rooms dedicated to power, landscape, eros, comedy, music and maetri to arrive at the final room: the Future Room. A dimensionless space covered with mirrors that create infinite reflections; an almost dead-end box to potentially reach unexplored places and have alienating visions.

MIAC, in the Cinecittà Studios, is scheduled to open next December. A museum suitable for all ages and enthusiasts, as well as scholars and specialists.

For info: www.cinecitta.com

Pictured is theEmotion of Cinema. Ph.Credit Cristina Vatielli

MIAC, the Italian Audiovisual and Cinema Museum, will open in Cinecittà in December.

Warning: the translation into English of the original Italian article was created using automatic tools. We undertake to review all articles, but we do not guarantee the total absence of inaccuracies in the translation due to the program. You can find the original by clicking on the ITA button. If you find any mistake,please contact us.