Museo Italiano dell’Audiovisivo e del Cinema
Opened at the end of 2019 in the Cinecittà Studios, inside a historic building created in the 1930s as a development and printing laboratory and film depot, the MIAC – Museo Italiano dell’Audiovisivo e del Cinema is a multimedia, interactive and immersive museum dedicated to the art of moving images, to tell its history and evolution between the 20th and 21st centuries, from the origins of cinema to the arrival of television and the new digital technologies.
Unforgettable characters and masterpieces, dreams, hopes and fantasies that have fuelled the collective imagination of Italy in the past and present are brought back to us through hundreds of films and archive footage (from the funds of the Istituto Luce, Teche Rai and partner archives), as well as documents, photographs, interviews, theme songs, backstage and graphics: an immense 120-year heritage made even more engaging by interactive installations, video art and transmedia languages.
The MIAC itinerary is divided into 12 main rooms, each of which explores a theme, from the relationship with power to the enchantment of landscapes, from the role of language to soundtracks. Welcoming visitors is a wall more than thirty metres long with the ‘Timeline’, an animated graffito to discover the dates and founding events of audiovisuals in Italy. The legendary Interactive Table, the original 40-metre-plus reel that for decades transported films to these rooms for processing, now instead carries the thoughts written by visitors on luminous screens. Other rooms include the Actors and Actresses Room, with a mosaic of sequences and close-ups of famous faces enclosed in three spectacular frames formed by 100 light bulbs, the History Room and finally Kaleidoscope, a mirror-covered room, devoid of dimensional references, in which light trails dialogue with a video column in the centre.
Commissioned and financed by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, realised by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà in partnership with Rai Teche and CSC – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna, AAMOD, Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Cineteca del Friuli, Mediaset, under the patronage of SIAE, the museum was born as a multifunctional project, able to grow and change over time, also hosting temporary exhibitions, installations, projections, meetings.
Daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Last admission 4.30 p.m.
Tuesday
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