Top of the World
Along the 3200 square meters of the National Cinema Museum, distributed over five floors, there are some spaces dedicated to the main figures who contribute to making a film. In the main hall, built in the hall of the temple of the Mole, a series of chapels is dedicated to various film genres.
The museum houses an impressive collection of film posters, a film collection and a library, which is constantly being expanded: it currently includes 20,000 cameras, paintings and prints, over 80,000 photographic documents, over 300,000 posters, 12,000 films and 26,000 volumes (February 2006).
A cinema hall not far from the museum, inside the Cinema Massimo, is reserved exclusively for retrospectives and other museum activities. The National Cinema Museum hosts many festivals, the most important and prestigious of which is the Torino Film Festival.
Inside the museum there is also a panoramic lift (inaugurated in 2000), with transparent glass walls, which makes its run in 59 seconds, in a single open span without intermediate floors, from 10 meters of the starting altitude to 85 meters of the "tempietto" from which you can see the panorama of the city.
