HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATIONAL CINEMA MUSEUM! A free-admission day to celebrate 15 years at the Mole Antonelliana. The premiere of Steven Spielberg’s film Bridge of Spies at the Cinema Massimo.

Free admission to the museum and to the premiere, free activities for tiny-tots

The National Cinema Museum at the Mole Antonelliana is now 15 years old, and will celebrate this with an OPEN DAY dedicated to the city and all those who have contributed to its success over those years. An important goal for a museum which has grown during the years, garnering widespread and flattering accolades, both at a national and an international level.

With the complicity of the Christmas festivities, a large Christmas Tree will welcome all visitors, who will be able to decorate it with their own film-themed baubles. Moreover, the museum is offering a rendez-vous from 3.00 to 7.00 p.m. with Father Christmas, who will entertain children with stories and confectionery surprise-treats within the suggestive setting of the Temple Hall.

A laboratory for children will take place at 3.00 and at 5.00 p.m., featuring experiments with the optical tricks that already filled adults and children alike with wonder centuries ago. This will be the occasion for creating special Christmas decorations inspired by the museum collections, which will then be hung on the big Christmas Tree set up at the Mole Antonelliana entrance.

The day will be rounded off by an exceptional event, which the museum feels particularly honoured about: Steven Spielberg’s latest, highly anticipated Bridge of spies, the spy film based on a true story and starring Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan and Alan Alda, will be screened as a premiere at 8.30 p.m. at the Cinema Massimo (Screen One), in its original version with subtitles in Italian.

Admission free until full capacity is reached. With thanks to 20th Century Fox Italia.

"The National Cinema Museum is a tale of gambles won, promises kept and increasing successes - its Director Alberto Barbera underlines. It speaks of satisfied and admiring visitors, of initiatives showing great quality and involvement, of cultural events which have established themselves amongst the most significant ones in our city, of fame that has overtaken national boundaries. The National Cinema Museum is a supporting and lead actor at the same time, serving the cultural policy project which has contributed to the transformation of Turin and the Piedmont Region into one of the places worth living and working in".

Inaugurated on 20 July 2000, the museum has been visited in the past years by over 7.5 million people, with an average of more than 600,000 visitors a year, becoming one of the most visited museums in Piedmont and establishing itself nationwide as the 8th one.

In these 15 years, the Mole Antonelliana has hosted 107 internationally prestigious exhibitions, over 500 institutional and private events organised in the picturesque setting of the museum, 300 film shoots and television productions (films, documentaries, serials, shorts, soap operas, music videos, promotional and institutional videos, television programmes) featuring the museum as a protagonist, as well as 20,000 accredited journalists from all over the world and has organised more than 220 press conferences.

Many important guests have entered the doorway of this symbol of the city, and many have been the protagonists of over 550 meetings organised in Screen 3 at the Cinema Massimo, which has seen a significant increase in attendance in the first half of 2015 compared to the same period of 2014, for a total of 1,900,000 spectators since its opening (25 January 2001).

The “Mario Gromo” Library/Mediatheque has had about 19,000 users since 2008 up ‘till now, also thanks to over 460 events held in its meeting room, which has seen an increasing public attendance.

The films restored have been over 150, in collaboration with prestigious international institutions, and have been presented in the most important film festivals worldwide, a commitment which the museum has strengthened in recent years.

Since 2000 the National Cinema Museum has significantly increased its assets thanks to a remarkable increase in its donations and to some acquisitions, and its collections currently number over 2 million items.

Over the past five years, the museum has received many awards and international recognition for its technological innovation strategy. A much sought-after result for a foundation which collaborates consistently with approximately 100 technical partners and sponsors, creating a spin-off reaching 300 partenerships.