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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-91Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Muzei kinoPrevious names
The Museum of Cinema was established for the first time in 1927 under the State Academy of Artistic Sciences and closed in 1932 with the abolition of the Academy. The museum collection was scattered among different museums. A Cinema Museum Division was created as a subdivision of the All-Union Bureau of Propaganda of Cinema Arts in 1984. The Museum of Cinema was re-established as an independent organization in 1992 on the basis of the collection from the Central Museum of Cinema (Tsentral'nyi muzei kino), which itself had only been set up three years earlier in 1989. It is located in the motion-picture center known as the House of Cinema (Dom kino) on Presnia, which also has several special film presentation theaters and smaller viewing rooms. The building also houses the offices and library (see below) of the Union of Russian Cinematographers (Soiuz kinematografistov Rossii). That Union along with other organizations—the State Committee of Cinematographers, the Ministry of Culture, and the Confederation of Unions of Cinematographers (Konfederatsiia soiuza kinematografistov)—have supported the founding and contributed to the development of the museum collections. In November 2005 museum on Presnia was closed, and its fonds were transferred to the Mosfil'm Motion Picture Company. The Scientific-Memorial Cabinet of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Eizenshtein) (1898–1948), founded as a museum in 1967 under the Union of Cinematographers, is housed in the apartment of Eisenstein’s wife R.M. Atasheva and, since 1992, is a branch of the Museum of Cinema (see below). |
