Museu de Cinema – Jean Loup Passek
Museum in Melgaço's historic centre with Jean-Loup Passek's collection on pre-cinema, including magic lanterns, optical devices, posters and photographs.
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About the museum
The Museu de Cinema de Melgaço – Jean Loup Passek was opened in 2005 by the then Minister of Culture, Isabel Pires de Lima. It is housed in the historic centre of the town, in a former Guarda-Fiscal building that the municipality bought and adapted for the purpose. It is unique in the country and is part of the Melgaço Museus network.
The museum's core is the collection that the French critic Jean-Loup Passek gathered over about five decades and donated to the municipality. Passek headed the cinema department of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and was director of the La Rochelle film festival. The collection includes thousands of posters and photographs, equipment from the silent era and more recent apparatus.
The permanent exhibition on the ground floor is devoted to pre-cinema and shows magic lanterns with hand-painted glass slides, phenakistiscopes, zoetropes and praxinoscopes, as well as posters illustrating the evolution of film up to the Lumière brothers' cinématographe. In the Sala do Novo Mundo, visitors can see and handle replicas of optical toys, a peep-show and an optical box for a theatre diorama. A small auditorium screens films linked to the temporary exhibition, which occupies the first floor.
Highlights
- Collection of Jean-Loup Passek, former head of cinema at the Centre Pompidou
- Magic lanterns, zoetropes, praxinoscopes and other pre-cinema devices
- Thousands of film posters and photographs
- Sala do Novo Mundo with replicas of optical toys to handle
- Small auditorium with films
Permanent exhibitions
- Pré-cinema – Devices such as magic lanterns, phenakistiscopes, zoetropes and praxinoscopes, and posters on the evolution of film up to the Lumière brothers' cinématographe.
- Sala do Novo Mundo – Room with replicas of optical toys to see and handle, a peep-show and an optical box for a theatre diorama.
- Founded
- 2005
- Operated by
- Município de Melgaço
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €3 |
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| Reduced | €1.50Students and people aged 65 or over |
| Melgaço Museus ticket (all venues in the network, valid for six months) | €8 |
The single ticket gives access to one venue. The ticket can be bought at any venue in the Melgaço Museus network.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | The museum has a permanent exhibition on the ground floor and a temporary exhibition on the first floor. |
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