The Professional and Technical Museum of Cinema is born

The old Paris Cinema in Villarejo de Salvanés (Madrid) will now house the Professional and Technical Museum of Cinema, an initiative sponsored by the collector and businessman Carlos Jiménez.

This Tuesday, January 10, the old Paris Cinema in Villarejo de Salvanés (Madrid) will reopen its doors, converted into a Professional and Technical Museum of Cinema. This private initiative that will show the cinema within the cinema is the work of the businessman and collector Carlos Jiménez who in this Museum will exhibit his enormous collection of pieces among which more than five hundred film projectors stand out, including a pair of the Lumière brothers.

Jiménez has been collecting and studying unique examples of film projectors for more than fifty years acquired in numerous theaters that have been closing in recent years as well as at international auctions.

The Museum, located in one of the thirteen rooms owned by the Jiménez family, occupies a total area of ​​one thousand square meters with three rooms and seven thematic exhibitions, which are explained in guided tours.

The film producer Enrique Cerezo and the president of the Association of Film Entrepreneurs, Primitivo Rodríguez, will attend its inauguration.

The collection includes pieces of great historical value for the seventh art such as magic lanterns, zoetropes, praxinoscopes, Newton or Faraday wheels, magic mirrors, kaleidoscopes, dark and clear cameras, lithophanes or perforated spheres... The collection is completed by various furniture, ushers' clothing, moviolas, sound players, numerous billboards and a large volume of film documentation with more than 22,000 posters.