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Ferrania Film Museum is a museum of industrial and territorial culture located in Palazzo Scarampi in Cairo Montenotte, in the province of Savona. It was inaugurated in 2018 and it is dedicated to the company FILM/Ferrania/3M, once a producer of photosensitive material, located in the homonymous town.

The museum illustrates the socio-cultural and territorial dynamics of the industrial life of Ferrania, that had worldwide relevance in the history of cinematography, photography and chemical research during the twentieth century.

The Social Cooperative Lanza del Vasto, that currently owns the management of the museum, organizes cultural events, exhibitions and screenings dedicated to the plant, telling the story of what for decades has been one of the most important companies at national level, the major Italian producer of photosensitive material for the photographic and radiographic industry, that transformed the name of the small village in Val Bormida into a brand of technological excellence worldwide.

Collection
Inside the museum there is an exhibition of artifacts like measuring instruments, films, delivery notebooks and objects from the factory, as well as audio-visual evidence of workers on the events that marked the history of Ferrania, from the war years to the most recent ones.

There are also multimedia workstations, machines and tools for the creation and processing of films, gigantographies, consultable advertising magazines and illustrative panels commenting on the various departments of the factory.

The museum’s collection mainly comes from the factory’s photographic archive, the Giuseppe Reggio Archive and the 3M Foundation archive which provided photographic and cinematographic finds, some licenses, the advertising archive of the 1950s-'60 and the collection of the magazine "Ferrania" from the Historical Archives of the Foundation.

Exhibitions
The museum itinerary develops through colors, visual codes and video animations. It is located on the second floor of Palazzo Scarampi in Cairo Montenotte, and it develops in six different themed rooms:


 * "La fabbrica sensibile" (dedicated to machines, workers and their knowledge);
 * "Made in Ferrania" (dedicated to products, market and communication);
 * "La fabbrica del cinema" (dedicated to the Italian film);
 * "Filmisti! La fabbrica sociale" (dedicated to the workers homes, families and after-work);
 * "Adelasia" (dedicated to the environmental choices of the factory);
 * "Dalla parte della cultura" (dedicated to writings, images and the factory archives).

In addition, outside the Palace there is an exhibition space with some of the most important historical artifacts of the factory.

Management
The museum was created by the will of the municipality of Cairo Montenotte, with the contribution of Fondazione De Mari, Ferrania Technologies and Fondazione 3M.

For a period of about two years, from September 2018 to October 2020, the museum had an experimental management by the Ferrania Film Museum Association, that was succeeded at the end of 2020 by the Cooperativa Sociale Valli di Lanzo in Genoa.

Location and activities
Ferrania Film Museum is located on the second and last floor of Palazzo Scarampi, in Piazza Savonarola, in the historic center of Cairo Montenotte where also the Biblioteca Civica F.C.Rossi is located.

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