Covering an area of 900 square meters, on two elevations, the Museum of Cinema of Catania was inaugurated on May 16, 2003 and, like all the exhibition facilities of the Museum Circuit of the Regional Province of Catania, cares with particular attention to the activities and services for educational and tourist visits. It collects, increases and proposes to the public documents regarding the art of cinema, its techniques and its history, with particular attention to the relationship between Cinema and Sicily.
The Cinema Museum exhibits photos of the sets during the shooting of films that have a deep relationship with the island and with contemporary Sicilian literature: they are films by Rossellini, Visconti, Bolognini, Antonioni, Germi, Rosi, Pasolini and others.
