Barco Brings Back Memories at Italian Museum of Cinema

The Museum of Cinema, an ancient Temple of the Jewish Community, is home to five levels of exhibitions with thousands of film posters, photographs, books, periodicals, paintings, prints, filming and projection devices. The museum also owns a library of more than 7000 films, the costume of Rudolph Valentino, the bowler hat of Charlie Chaplin, the shark’s head from Spielberg’s “Jaws”, screenplays from “The Godfather” and scripts from “Citizen Kane”, … to name only a few.

A journey through the magic of film provides the visitors a course on the archeology of cinema and the various stages of film production to end in the spectacular and immense Temple Hall, the heart of the museum. In this area, visitors can relax, watch two Italian 35mm films and enjoy the extraordinary video and light show, which runs every 18 minutes. Surrounding this central hall, the audience can visit 10 chapels, dedicated to the history of cinema.

Euphon was chosen to work out the impressive audio-visual installation for the museum project. This leading Italian audio-visual integrator designed a tailor-made solution, based on the requirements for every specific zone of the building. On the first level, dedicated to pre-cinema, BARCO’s 6000 Series LCD projection technology provides the visitors with extremely bright and razor-sharp video images. In addition, each of the ‘chapels’ around the Temple Hall is equipped with a BARCO 708 Series CRT projector. Euphon completed the audio-visual installation by providing sound systems, hard disc players, Mini Disc decks, CRT and plasma monitors, as well as video and audio control equipment.

Massimo Moretto, project leader at Euphon, said: “The hardware for the museum was selected according to the specific requirements for each zone. After comparative tests with various projector models, we opted for the BARCO technology. Featuring the ‘LIDO’ digital line doubler function, the BARCO 708 CRT projectors provided us with the image quality needed to display the filmed sequences in the ‘chapels’.”

“We are very proud to be part of this prestigious project. This again proves, BARCO projectors are the preferred solutions to display film-like images,” commented Roberto Missoli at BARCO. “Our BARCO 708 projectors feature long-life cathode ray tubes (CRT) and high-resolution lenses to ensure really top-quality reproduction. The units in the museum have our optional LIDO line doubler that reduces the visible line structure, resulting in more uniform, film-like images.”


Barco 708 Series
BARCO’s 708 Series projectors combine outstanding light output, rich contrast, exceptional color fidelity to display film-like images with clear outlines. The BARCO 708 projectors are ideal video projection systems for cinema excitement at home and in museums, breathtaking game action, web surfing and interactive video entertainment.

Barco 6000 Series
The BARCO 6000 Series projectors are brilliant, compact, and affordable digital projectors. These impressive units combine exceptional resolution, high brightness and advanced digital signal processing to deliver compelling visual presentations with astonishing depth and clarity. The BARCO 6000 Series projectors are ideal presentation tools for boardrooms, conference rooms, auditoriums, point-of-sale displays, CAD/CAM imaging, virtual reality centers as well as rental & staging applications.

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Els Van Loocke
Marketing Communications Manager
Barco Presentation&Simulation

Telephone +32 56 368667
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