Ferrania Film Museum

The Ferrania Film Museum was founded in 2017 and opened to the public in September 2018 by the will of the Municipality of Cairo Montenotte, in Savona province, with the contribution and support of Liguria Region, 3M Foundation, De Mari Foundation and Ferrania Technologies. Located in the historic centre in Palazzo Scarampi (16^th Century), which also houses the Civic Library (about 45,000 volumes), it is a museum of industrial and territorial culture dedicated to the film factory, founded in 1917 in Ferrania, a village of the city of Cairo Montenotte, from the industrial conversion of the S.I.P.E. – Società Italiana Prodotti Esplodenti (Italian Society of Explosive Products).

The story of the factory plant that, together with Kodak, Agfa/Gevaert, Fujifilm and Ilford, has played the most important roles in the national and international photographic, cinematographic and X-ray fields, is told within the Museum inside thematic rooms and well-kept display cases.

The Museum’s archive is made up of various kinds of several collections: literary material (historical, science photosensitive material technique topics and Ferrania magazines); documentary materials (personnel files, architectural/urban technical drawings, service orders, film posters and forms); photo materials (negatives, photographs and slides) and 35 mm and short-pitch films from Ferrania plant, from Milan 3M Foundation and from the numerous donations and collaborations received and still on-going in the several paths of conservation, restoration, research and development.

The strong anthropological approach, imprinted during the preparation and finalization of the contents, gives the visitor an open museum itinerary to multiple interpretations, usable not only to insiders and/or to the experts who are working in the sector, but also to the simple amateur or curious in a particular journey into the historical, social and custom changes of the 20^th Century.

A Museum “sensitive” to stories, intelligences, and research paths.