Everyone knows the famous Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. Most famous for his 1960s movie La dolce vita with Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg (remember the scene at the Fontana di Travi?), his cinematic Œuvre includes 35 movies like La Strada, Amarcord and Otto e mezzo. He died in 1993 at Roma but he was born in 1920 at Rimini – and for sure they had to create a kind of monument for him here. The Museum Fellini can be found across three locations close to each other in the city center: the Castel Sismondo, the Piazza Malatesta in front of it and the modern location within the Palazzo del Fulgor.
It took some time after Fellinis death to show a first temporary exhibition, but also to open the current museum: The COVID-19 pandemic added further time and only in 2021 the museum could open its doors. But how to exhibit the work of a film maker? While the Palazzo del Fulgor seems to exhibit changing items related to Fellini, the more impressive location is the medieval Castel Sismondo – a fortress built from 1437 CE on. Here you can see drawings by Fellini, costumes, different items from the movies and a cinema.
The museum is not easy to digest if you don’t have knowledge to build upon as they don’t really explain you the basics of Fellinis life. Most remarkable are a vast sculpture of Anita Ekbergs character you’ll know from La dolca vita and a large statue of Jesus Christ from the opening scene of the same movie, being flown into Roma by a helicopter. The different locations of the museum can be visited with one and the same ticket.
Museum Fellini
https://fellinimuseum.it
Castel Sismondo
Piazza Malatesta
47900 Rimini
Italy
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