As early as the end of the 19th century, a passion for moving images was born in Turin, also thanks to Edison’s famous Kinetoscope, which arrived in the city in 1895. At the dawn of the 20th century Turin was considered the capital of Italian cinema, where most of the national film production was shot.

Today, the National Museum of Cinema bears witness to the history of Italian and international cinema, offering the public a spectacular as well as unique experience: the building itself, the Mole Antonelliana, which has become a symbolic monument of the city of Turin, inspires a sense of majesty: with a height of 167 meters, it is the tallest masonry building in Europe. The panoramic elevator is a further attraction: it allows you to ascend to a height of 85 meters and admire an extraordinary view of the city and the surrounding Alps.

What do we really like about cinema? It’s not just watching images scroll across the screen, it’s our desire to build and live a thousand stories. Every visit to the museum is a plunge into memories, a great journey through the films that have marked our collective memory. The museum boasts an absolutely unique patrimony: with almost 1,800,000 works including films, archive documents, photographs, apparatus and art objects, posters and sound recordings, the collection is considered one of the most precious in the world.