Italy opens Fellini Museum in Rimini

Rome: Italy celebrates Federico Fellini by opening a museum in his honour in the north-eastern city of Rimini where the great Italian film director was born in 1920.

The Fellini Museum opens on 19 August, via bookings on its website for holders of the covid Green Pass, with free guided tours on the weekend of 20-22 August from 10.00 to midnight.

The museum is spread out over three venues – Castel Sismondo, Piazza Malatesta and Palazzo del Fulgor – each of which will host different initiatives dedicated to the master of Italian neorealism.

The Fellini Museum will be presented formally by the culture minister Dario Franceschini during the Venice International Film Festival on 31 August.

Fellini, who died in Rome in 1993, remains internationally renowned for his distinctive cinematic style which merged elements of fantasy and baroque.

He filmed many of his movies in Rome, most notably La Dolce Vita, and he lived for many years on Via Margutta in the historic centre.