Fellini Museum Palazzo del Fulgor Rimini‎

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The largest and most innovative museum in the world dedicated to the genius of Federico Fellini and his poetic legacy, as well as his artistic and visual references to the art of all times. This is the International Federico Fellini Museum, a museum that does not intend to interpret Fellini's cinema as a finished work to be paid homage to, but as the key to "everything is imagined", the possibility of linking past and present, classical and contemporary art, capable of giving back everything that cinema has sought to be since its origin and that Fellini's films express in the most complete way: amazement, fantasy, spectacle, fun.
The Museum is divided into three sections. Sismondo Castle, the 15th century fortress that Filippo Brunelleschi contributed to building; Palazzo del Fulgor, a recently restored 18th century building (Palazzo Valloni), whose ground floor houses the legendary Fulgor cinema immortalised in Amarcord, while the upper floors are dedicated to information, study and research; and the third and last section consisting of a large urban area, Malatesta Square, a real Piazza dei Sogni (the square of dreams) which, through a path of Fellini's installations, acts not only as a connective tissue but also as a creative 'fil rouge' between these two buildings of extraordinary architectural and symbolic value, to become a visual and interactive experience that characterises the spaces of daily relations for residents and guests.
In a few words the Fellini Museum is a “museum that comes out of the museum”, operating on different levels and exceeding its own spaces; it fires the imagination and in a single conceptual and spatial whole with Piazza Malatesta, creating a composite path where the narrations create a participatory immersive and diffused museum.
Thanks to the contribution from important national public and private audio-visual archives and from nearly all the producers and owners of Fellini feature films, you can see films, documentaries, interviews, screenplay, scripts, costumes and props, as well as drawings by Fellini and technological solutions developed to involve senses and the mind.
In the sixteen rooms of this renaissance castle, which offer a panoramic view of the most relevant aspects of the director’s work, you can immerse yourself in Fellini culture, and savour his profundity and vision.
The exhibition begins with a room dedicated to the output of Federico Fellini’s earliest days when he worked as a satirical writer, a journalist, a cartoonist and caricaturist (first room). The sheets of paper, strung up in the middle of the area, symbolise Fellini’s youthful work and are a reminder of how paper documents were stored by “stabbing” a number of sheets with needle and thread. The iconic look of Giulietta Masina soon appears, and it is to her that the second room is dedicated, with close-ups of her as Gelsomina and in other roles in a kind of continuous and animated frieze. The cinema tool that most reflects Fellini’s expressiveness is in the third room: an extendable dolly arm. The exhibition continues with a range of different visual and innovative communication techniques, like the magical presence of elements from nature - the sea, the moon, but also small hands or deciduous leaves, wind or snow. The fourth room is dedicated to “The Sea in Rimini” and features four displays; the fifth room focuses on La Dolce Vita, the film that manages to capture the fragility of the ostensible and triumphant Italian economic boom, showcasing the dichotomy between reason and desire, social conventions and human impulses. The visit continues with the sixth room, which addresses rehearsals and aspiring actors who wrote to Fellini hoping for a part in his films. A magic mirror in which visitors are reflected activates a gallery of pictures of the legendary envelopes where Fellini kept pictures and correspondence with extras. It is a journey through the imagination and secret aspirations of many, which was made possible thanks to work with the Fondation Fellini pour le Cinéma of Sion. Costumes, like those from “Fellini’s Casanova” that won Danilo Donati his second Oscar, take centre stage in the seventh room: like the traditional full-length mirrors that tailors use divided to refract light. The installation has three monitors which show immobile costumes in movement. Ranging from fashion to media, the eighth room is the one with the amazing adverts, with both commercial films made for companies and completely invented scenes for films being projected. The ninth room has been designed as a space in which to take a break while visiting the exhibition, with the voice of the poet Rosita Copioli discoursing on Fellini’s interest in literature and comics, and his passion for occult science and the esoteric.