Entrance of the Fantacinema, Fantasy Cinema Exhibition-Museum housed in the Cotton Warehouses at the Old Port (Porto Antico) of Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Fantacinema is a very particular exhibition-museum, covering an area of about 600 square metres, it is housed in the spaces on the ground floor of the Magazzini del Cotone (Cotton Warehouses) in the Old Port, renovated by the architect Renzo Piano. Inside it three important private collections are available to the public. The Pittaluga collection preserves “magic lanterns”, very rare slide projectors and the first motion film making and projection tools. The Griffith collection which is made up of rare original films - from Méliès to the fantasy and horror classics of the silent era - on film or transferred to digital media, along with equipment for projecting and editing film from the post-war period to today. And finally the Cineciak collection which consists of objects, fibreglass sculptures, original film costumes, posters and stills from the 1920s (Nosferatu, Dracula, King Kong etc.) till today (Star Wars, Batman, Harry Potter, etc.).
Size: 4225px × 2817px
Location: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Photo credit: © Simona Abbondio / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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