Rimini, Fellini Museum is completed with the opening of the Fulgor Palace

Rimini’s Fellini Museum is completed: it will open on Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 6 p.m. in the Fulgor Palace.

With the inauguration of the refurbishment of themuseum area in the 18th-century building where on the ground floor there is the legendary Fulgor cinema immortalized in Amarcord, the project of the brand-new diffuse museum pole dedicated to the genius of Federico Fellini thus sees completion, after the opening last August 19 of the rooms in Castel Sismondo and the final configuration of Piazza Malatesta with the completion also of the “forest of names” that will be opened on December 12.

The Palazzo del Fulgor is now the place to begin to enter Fellini’s life and cinematography, retracing his biographical and creative stages and delving into his projects and his ties of work, love and friendship thanks to the possibility of consulting digital archives and interactive instrumentation or letting oneself go to discover precious original materials, drawings, posters, playbills, books and period magazines, films and audiovisual documents.

After all, it was in Rimini and precisely in the Fulgor cinema that Fellini’s adventure began. It was here that the very young Federico Fellini began to love the big screen, American films, Westerns, the comedies of Ridolini, Laurel and Oil, Buster Keaton, Charlot and the Marx Brothers. The Palazzo del Fulgor is now the place to begin to enter Fellini’s life and cinematography, retracing his biographical and creative stages and delving into his projects and ties of work, love and friendship thanks to the possibility of consulting digital archives and interactive instrumentation or letting oneself go to discover precious original materials, drawings, posters, playbills, period books and magazines, films and audiovisual documents.

Welcoming visitors to Piazza San Martino at the entrance to the Fulgor Palace is the large jesmonite sculpture that effigies the rhinocerontess protagonist of some of the most powerful and evocative scenes in Fellini’s imaginative film E la nave va, now the symbol of the entire museum complex. A lighter version of the rhinocerontessa became an ambassador for the Fellini Museum by taking part in a Grand Tour of Italy: in early September, “Rina” (as she was baptized by the media that followed her on all her travels) was in Venice, on the occasion of the Venice Film Festival, where she took part in the procession of the Regata Storica on the Grand Canal and then landed on the red carpet at the Venice Lido. Later, the rhinocerontessa participated in the 16th edition of the Rome Film Festival, where until a few days ago she was positioned at the Hanging Gardens of the Auditorium Parco della Musica, in the green area between the Petrassi and Sinopoli halls. Now it is back in Rimini, in the beautiful setting of the garden of the Grand Hotel.

The opening will be preceded and accompanied by a videomapping show in Piazza Malatesta starting at 5:30 pm. While, at 6 p.m., free guided tours are scheduled until 11 p.m. and then continue on Monday, Dec. 13, from 2 to 7 p.m. (reservations required at www.fellinimuseum.it).

The Fellini Museum has been included by the Ministry of Culture among the major national cultural heritage projects. It unfolds along three pivotal points in Rimini’s historic center (of Castel Sismondo the 15th-century Malatesta fortress, Piazza Malatesta and the Fulgor Palace) in an artistic synthesis and spectacle in which innovation, research and experimentation are measured against the classicism of art.

Pictured: the Fulgor’s cinemino

Rimini, Fellini Museum is completed with the opening of the Fulgor Palace

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