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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is home to one of the largest
collections of material on the moving image in Britain. Both an
accredited public museum and academic research facility, we have
a collection of over 86,000 items. 1,000 items are on display in
our Galleries. The Lower Gallery explores the development of
pre-cinema visual culture up to 1910 and the Upper Gallery
celebrates cinema from 1910 to the present. Everyone is welcome
to visit our galleries seven days a week (except bank holidays
and between Christmas and New Year) and our research facilities
are open to all each weekday.
The museum chronicles the
development of optical entertainment from shadow-puppets and
17th century manuscripts to the most recent Hollywood
blockbusters, including artefacts such as Magic Lanterns, rare
books, prints, and an extensive variety of publicity materials.
The diversity of this collection provides an insight into the
changing dynamics of the moving image and the history of our
relationship with it.
The museum commemorates oneItem:
52803 of British cinema’s greatest auteurs, Bill Douglas. Bill
and his life-long friend Peter Jewell shared a passion for
cinema which is now immortalised in the museum’s 'Bill Douglas
and Peter Jewell Collection' of over 50,000 items. It is this
remarkable collection which lies at the heart of the museum as
its foundation; after Bill passed away in 1991, Peter donated it
to form a museum so that students and the public would be able
to share in their fascination with cinema and popular visual
entertainment.
Bill was one of Britain's greatest
filmmakers and the collection of cinema related artefacts that
he put together with Peter Jewell founded our museum.
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is located in the University of Exeter
Read more:
• Bill Douglas,
filmaker
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