Best Museums in Dubai

A Cinema Museum holds a splendid and fascinating collection of the objects and parts of cinema which starts from light fittings and banks of seats to the fragrance used to mask the smell of smoke since its origin. HOC Museum Dubai is one of the popular and Best Museums in Dubai constituting historical memories and objects of the film industry from past decades. A film museums comprehensive collection encompasses every aspect of the pictures, from the architecture and marketing materials that promoted the films of the past.

On display, we have Dutch peep-box viewer and mutoscope with flicker effect from early eighteenth and twentieth century respectively. The large collection here also includes original stuff and artwork for cinema architecture and interiors from the past centuries till today. Along with advanced electronic digital projection the Cinema Museum is made to preserve the history and traditional memories of mechanical projection which is crucial today. The collection of cinema museum includes early sound systems, lenses, reels, projection devices, projectors, etc. Also, there are professional 35mm and 16mm projectors of major makes, many amateur home movie projectors, including gauge. The HOC Museum is also having a huge collection of safety film of all gauges that contains adverts, trailers, B-movies, public information films and newsreels.

Cinema is a very old art form and was held in particular buildings at exceptional entertainment places since 1930. In the Middle East, a huge number of people went to the cinema and lives there for about twice a week. Those days it influenced people greatly because of the importance of luxury and difference in surroundings and culture. Hence cinema became a very important cultural influence on people. A museum protects and preserves this information and traditionally used film stuff as an exhibition space and to educate the people about the development and advancement faced in the industry.