My Kind of Lesson

Today before we let for France, Anna, Alberto's nice came over to practice English/Italian. At 9 she came over and said she wanted to go to the Cinema Museum (okay twist my arm). So we took the tram downtown because it was another foggy rainy day (did I move to London or Italy?) The museum was fantastic. It is the largest collection of international film memorabilia and is the tallest museum in the world. Ferrari is celebrating over 50 years so they had a huge display of movies that feature the ports car (Ferris Beuler’s Day Off and Steve McQueen movies to name a few). Around the main room there are different movie sets you can enter and watch a particular clip from several movies dealing with a related topic. For example there is a huge fridge you can enter and watch movies dealing with eating. The seats inside the fridge are toilet bowls and the fridge door is completely stocked with food bigger than my head. There was a room for cartoons where you can watch Looney Tunes on TV screen set inside a bomb. “Fiffel Goes West” was shown on a screen set inside a vault filled with fake coins. The museum walks you through the evolution of film starting in the early 1800’s. At the end of our tour we took the central elevator to the very top. From there you could see the whole city (on a day that is clear). I am definitely going back to this awesome museum!