With three days of free visits – places sold out well in advance – the Fellini Museum opens its doors in Rimini. A widespread museum that embraces three iconic places of the Romagna city, which have been involved in significant interventions in recent years: Castel Sismondo, Palazzo del Fulgor and Piazza Malatesta. Thus was born the largest museum center dedicated to one of the most famous directors of Italian cinema, curated by Marco Bertozzi and Anna Villari.
But beware: a space dedicated to Fellini could only include the genius of other artists, becoming the narrative of a conspicuous piece of our cultural history. The great actors who collaborated with him meet in the museum, including of course Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Giulietta Masina; but also geniuses from other arts, such as the composer – known above all for his music for the cinema – Nino Rota and costume designer (twice Oscar winner) and set designer Danilo Donati, of which various costumes and stage drawings are exhibited.
Amazement, fantasy and fun: the Fellini Museum intends to arouse all this in its approximately 1,650 square meters of indoor exhibition and with the help of a conspicuous multimedia project, conceived by Studio Azzurro, which includes over five hours of film extracts, composed in an immersive and participatory setting that makes the visitor the protagonist of the visit.
Di Fellini meets different angles in the path that unravels in sixteen rooms set up by the architect Orazio Carpenzano and the Studio Tommaso Pallaria in the Sismondo Castle, a fifteenth-century fortress to whose project Filippo Brunelleschi contributed. There is, yes, his history, including the youth period in which he worked as a satirist, journalist and cartoonist, but also very practical aspects such as his connection with a technological tool such as the Dolly extendable arm and others more intimate and intangible, like his dreams. Literally: in the tenth room it is possible to virtually leaf through «The book of dreams», where the director, at the suggestion of the psychoanalyst Ernst Bernhard, transcribed and annotated his dream experiences.
A seamless dialogue between internal and external spaces characterizes the Fellini Museum: exiting the Sismondo Castle, one encounters the 11 thousand square meters of Malatesta square, where a large veil of water evokes the presence of the ancient moat and a circular bench with a diameter of eight and a half meters, just like in the ending of “8½”, is intended to be a hymn to life, solidarity, the desire to stay together. From this singular bench, luminous circles radiate that touch all the identifying places of the historic center of Rimini. On the back of the Galli Theater, images of the director’s greatest masterpieces are projected.
The eighteenth century is nearing completion Fulgor Palace (for now, from Monday 23 August only the part of the museum housed in the Castle can be visited regularly). Right here, on the ground floor, is the «Fulgor», the legendary cinema immortalized in «Amarcord», recently refurbished with the sets designed by Dante Ferretti.
With the Fellini Museum, the path of change that in the last ten years has positively affected the city continues, which aims to expand the interpretations that tourists can attribute to it: not only a territory for lovers of beach life and discos, but also a cultural center with a respectable offer.
In gallery you can take a look at the charm of some details of the museum.
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