With about 300,000 pieces, the collection comprises movie posters, playbills and all the advertising material promoting cinema, from the first pre-cinematographic shows to today's films.
Among the most precious posters the Museum holds two rare original posters of the Cinématographe Lumière advertising the birth of cinema.
Of great interest is the collection dedicated to silent cinema with more than 200 items among Italian and foreign productions. Worthy of notice is also the section dedicated to silent film in Torino (featuring masterpieces such as "Cabiria", "Il fuoco", "Il guanto") and in Rome (represented with posters from "Tosca", "Assunta Spina", "Thais").
Sound film posters shape the widest section of the collection, showing Hollywood's most famous films as depicted by the great cinematographic painters of the time. From "Sunset Boulevard" to "Citizen Kane", from "Stagecoach" to "The Lady from Shanghai", from "Gilda" to "Singin' in the Rain".
Films from other countries like France, England, Spain, Sweden and Japan are also well represented, together with posters of Italian films such as "Roma città aperta", "La ciociara", "Ladri di biciclette", "Riso amaro", "La dolce vita", "Otto e mezzo", "Ossessione", "Senso" and "Il gattopardo".