MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGES OPENED IN DUBAI. SINGLE ONE OF ITS KIND IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND PRACTICALLY UNIQUE FOR THE WHOLE REST OF THE WORLD
More than three hundred exhibits are united by one idea: all of them are the forerunners of modern cinema. Shadow theater, pinhole camera, stereoscopes, magic lanterns, animated pictures - spectacles that our ancestors entertained themselves until the era of high technology and personal computers. One of the most massive exhibits in the collection is the so-called photoplastic, or "Imperial Panorama" (Kaiserpanorama). It is a device for simultaneous demonstration of stereoscopic images to a group of viewers - the forerunner of 3D format. It was created in the early 1880s in Berlin. You sit down on a chair, look through binoculars, and before your eyes pictures from the past begin to flicker - transparencies on stained glass plates.
The next masterpiece is the megalooscope Carlo Ponti - an optical device for viewing photos, with the illusion of depth and perspective. To illuminate the images in the 60s of the XIX century, they used oil lamps or kerosene lamps. In general, you need to look and see!
In the corner itself are two mutoscopes, the colors of London telephone boxes. You come up, toss a coin, quickly spin the reel ... Minute, and a movie with a fascinating storyline and inimitable Charlie Chaplin breaks off at the most exciting moment! Want to know what happened next? Add one more penny ... But the true masterpiece of the collection and the oldest exhibit is a German lantern toy of 1730, based on the oriental tale "1001 and 1 night." Come to the museum and you will surely find out its secret!
Location: Dubai, TECOM
Opening hours: on weekdays - from 11.00 to 19.00 (on Wednesdays - until 21.00); on Saturday - from 12.00 to 19.00 on Friday - a day off
Entrance: 50 drx, for children and students - 25 drx.
