Fellini Museum

The Fellini Museum in Rimini honors the legacy of filmmaker Federico Fellini through immersive exhibits spread across three historic sites: Castel Sismondo, Palazzo del Fulgor, and Piazza Malatesta. Visitors can explore Fellini’s life and work through multimedia presentations, original drawings, costumes, and interactive installations, offering a comprehensive insight into his cinematic vision and artistic contributions.

Planning your visit

The Fellini Museum is spread across three sites in Rimini, the town where Federico Fellini was born and which he reinvented repeatedly on screen — most directly in Amarcord. Castel Sismondo, the fifteenth-century Malatesta fortress, holds the main immersive installations; the Palazzo del Fulgor contains the cinema of his childhood, the one that appears in his films, restored with a period foyer; and Piazza Malatesta between them has been reworked as public space with Fellini-inspired interventions.

The approach is deliberately unconventional. Rather than a chronological account of the filmography, the museum works through dream logic and set-piece environments — projections, sound, costume, original drawings from his notebooks, and reconstructions that place visitors inside the imagery. That suits a director whose work was substantially about memory and invention rather than realism.

Anyone who has seen the films will find far more in it than someone who has not, though the installations are visually strong regardless.

Bookable options include entry tickets covering the museum and Fulgor Palace, and private tours covering both plus the Rimini locations connected to his life and films. Current availability is listed below.