Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum (formally the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture) contains both a public museum and an academic research centre, housing one of Britain's largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema. Located on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter, the Museum was founded in 1994 but opened to the public in the autumn of 1997 as part of the British celebrations of the centenary of cinema. Unlike the majority of these celebrations, the Museum is a permanent facility, encouraging the continuing enjoyment, understanding and study of the twentieth century's greatest popular art form and its precursors.

The museum at the centre is open to the public free of charge.

External links

Bill Douglas Cinema Museum - official site

University of Exeter

People	Chancellor: The Baroness Benjamin Vice-Chancellor: Sir Steve Smith Academics Alumni List of University of Exeter people

Departments and centres	Bill Douglas Centre Business School Camborne School of Mines Centre for Leadership Studies Institute of Cornish Studies Xfi Centre for Finance and Investment

Campus	Cornwall Campus Exeter Science Park Penryn Campus St Luke's Campus Streatham Campus Halls of Residence University Chapel (Holy Trinity) University Chapel (St Luke)

Student life	Debating Society Exeposé (newspaper) Hockey Club Northcott Theatre Rugby Football Club Xpression FM XTV

Affiliates	eSTAR Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital University of St Mark & St John

Other	Academic dress CSM Association Exoniensis University of Exeter Press

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Coordinates: 50°44′00″N 3°32′03″W / 50.7333°N 3.5341°W / 50.7333; -3.5341

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