The collection of the Museum of Cinema was launched in February 2019, when the first exhibits were taken into storage — unique equipment from 1967, which was used in film processing processes at the Kiev Film Copy Factory. Now it can be seen in Dovzhenko Hall.

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Other sources of income were the donation, as well as the restructuring of the Film Archive, from which the Foundation “Cinotechnica” transferred to the Film Museum. In general, the museum collection is in the process of formation and is currently small, but it is located in two large repositories, where appropriate technical storage conditions have been created. After all, the exhibits of the Museum of Cinema, unlike film archival paper documents, are three-dimensional objects made of metal, glass, wood, plastic, textiles and even whale whiskers.

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They are divided into three stock groups:

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T — film and photo technology
P — props, objects of film decorative art
M — memorial objects

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The T Foundation collects samples related to all technical processes in cinema and photography — from shooting to reproduction and rental.

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The French film camera “Debrie Paris Sept 16 mm” of the first half of the 1920s came to the museum from France as a gift from film historian Lubomir Hoceik. This camera was personally shot by the famous Eugène (Eugene) Deslav, a French and Spanish director of Ukrainian origin, a friend of Bunuel and Dali.

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The oldest exhibit of the collection is the popular Kodak Brownie No. 2 box camera, produced in the USA since 1902, donated by Ivan Kozlenko.

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There are also rare projection machines in the collection, one of them is the German film projector Agfa Record of the 1930s, which is still usable.

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The R Foundation combines props, costumes, parts of scenery that were used during the filming of Ukrainian feature, documentary and animated films. In particular, we currently store puppets and scenery of several cartoons of the 1980s, shot at the Creative Association of Animation of the Kyiv Studio of Popular Science Films.

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The M Foundation receives not only personal belongings, but also memorials related to cinematographic institutions and events. For example, a 1:100 scale layout of the Kyiv film factory VUFKU, now known as Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio. Also interesting is a selection of souvenir bags from film festivals in Odessa, Kiev, Cannes, Berlin, Pordenone.

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