Cinema Museum gets a makeover, a 20 million project

(ANSA) – TURIN, 20 DEC – A video starring the architect Alessandro Antonelli and the cinema historian Maria Adriana Prolo has welcomed visitors to the Turin Cinema Museum from 20 December. Made with Museum documents, “it immediately immerses the public in the human and passionate adventure that led to the creation of this museum – explains the president Enzo Ghigo – one of the most loved in Italy and visited by 11 million people in 20 years”. The video anticipates the major modernization project of the museum, worth 20 million euros, which will be presented to the institutions in January and which includes, among other things, the construction of a new ticket office, with a special glass cover. to shelter the visitors in the queue, and the cafeteria in the adjacent garden. “Alessandro Antonelli and Maria Grazia Prolo are two essential figures in the history of the Museum and of Turin itself, two brilliant, courageous, visionary, stubborn and imaginative people – explains the director of the Museum, Domenico Di Gaetano -. We decided to make them known to the public. who as soon as he enters the Mole begins to look around enraptured by the marvels of cinema, without, however, perhaps knowing exactly where all this originated “.

In addition to the new video positioned in the reception area, Ghigo and the director Di Gaetano also presented the new lighting system of the exhibition area on the first floor, which for some days has hosted the ‘Diabolik alla Mole’ exhibition.

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