Paris
The french Cinematheque is a museum dedicated to the Cinema and created by Henri Langlois, film collector, who gave its whole collection to the museum. The aim of the Cinematheque is the restauration (40 films per year) and the preservation of all types of movies. It owns around 40000 movies, and receives each year 800 new pieces, given by film directors, distributors, or film festival (who all keep their intellectual property and rights on their creation). Moreover, the Cinematheque also owns a unique collection of devices (in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France), costumes (more than1000), worn by John Wayne, Henri Fonda, Gina Lollobrigida, Sofia Loren,...) and more than 1500 objects used in movies or owned by actors.
The building of the Cinematheque has been designed by the californian architect Frank O. Gehry who built it in a way that any person feels constantly like stepping in, mixing modern and old styles. He called his building «the dancer lifting her tutu».