Editing Cinema of Italy (section)

==Museums==
{{main|National Museum of Cinema|Museum of Precinema}}
[[File:Mole Antonelliana 02.jpg|thumb|The [[Mole Antonelliana]] in [[Turin]], which houses the [[National Museum of Cinema]]]]

The [[National Museum of Cinema]] (Italian: ''Museo Nazionale del Cinema'') located in [[Turin]] is a motion picture museum inside the [[Mole Antonelliana]] tower. It is operated by the ''Maria Adriana Prolo Foundation'', and the core of its collection is the result of the work of the historian and collector [[Maria Adriana Prolo]]. It was housed in the ''[[Palazzo Chiablese]]''. In 2008, with 532,196 visitors, it ranked 13th among the most visited Italian museums.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://static.touring.it/store/document/21_file.pdf|title=Touring Club Italiano – Dossier Musei 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418091007/http://static.touring.it/store/document/21_file.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2012|url-status=dead|access-date=16 January 2022|language=it}}</ref> The museum houses pre-cinematographic optical devices such as [[magic lantern]]s, earlier and current film technologies, stage items from early Italian movies and other memorabilia. Along the exhibition path of about 35,000 square feet (3,200 m<sup>2</sup>) on five levels, it is possible to visit some areas devoted to the different kinds of [[film crew]], and in the main hall, fitted in the temple hall of the Mole (which was a building originally intended as a synagogue), a series of chapels representing several [[film genres]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://convention.turismotorino.org/it/esperienze/cultura/musei-e-fondazioni/museo-nazionale-del-cinema-mole-antonelliana|title=MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL CINEMA – MOLE ANTONELLIANA|access-date=16 January 2022|language=it}}</ref>

The [[Museum of Precinema]] (Italian: ''Museo del Precinema'') is a museum in the Palazzo Angeli, [[Prato della Valle]], [[Padua]], related to the history of precinema, or [[precursors of film]]. It was created in 1998 to display the Minici Zotti Collection, in collaboration with the Comune of [[Padova]]. It also produces interactive touring exhibitions and makes valuable loans to other prestigious exhibitions such as ''Lanterne magique et film peint'' at the [[Cinémathèque Française]] in Paris and the [[National Museum of Cinema]] in [[Turin]].

The Cinema Museum of [[Rome]] is located in [[Cinecittà]]. The collections consist of movie posters and playbills, cine cameras, projectors, magic lanterns, stage costumes and the patent of [[Filoteo Alberini]]'s "[[kinetograph]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.museionline.info/musei/museo-del-cinema-di-roma|title=Museo del Cinema di Roma|access-date=17 January 2022|language=it}}</ref> The [[Milan]] Cinema Museum, managed by the [[Cineteca Italiana]], is divided into three sections, the precinema, animation cinema and "Milan as a film set", as well as multimedia and interactive stations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.milanoguida.com/visite-guidate/musei-milano/museo-interattivo-del-cinema/|title=MUSEO INTERATTIVO DEL CINEMA DI MILANO|access-date=17 January 2022|language=it}}</ref>

The [[Catania]] Cinema Museum exhibits documents concerning cinema, its techniques and its history, with particular attention to the link between cinema and [[Sicily]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.museionline.info/musei/museo-del-cinema-di-catania|title=Museo del Cinema di Catania|access-date=17 January 2022|language=it}}</ref> The Cinema Museum of [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] collects more than 10,000 exhibits on display in 12 rooms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.museionline.info/musei/museo-del-cinema-di-siracusa|title=Museo del Cinema di Siracusa|access-date=17 January 2022|language=it}}</ref>