Free admission to the Museu del Cinema to celebrate the birth of the cinematograph

On 28 December 1895, in the Salon Indien of the Grand Café at 14 Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière held the first public paid screening of films. That evening, some thirty spectators paid one franc each to watch ten films, each barely a minute long, including Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon. For the first time, an audience in a darkened room shared the illusion of moving images projected onto a screen. Cinema as a public spectacle was born.

To mark the 131st anniversary of that screening, on Tuesday 29 December the Museu del Cinema offers free admission to its permanent exhibition. It is a chance to discover the long road that led to the cinematograph: from shadow theatre and magic lanterns to panoramas, optical toys and the first devices for capturing and projecting moving images. All of them belong to the Tomàs Mallol Collection, one of the leading international collections on the precursors and origins of cinema.

Join us to celebrate the birth of cinema!

Admission: Free. Schedule: From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m