MuFant, Science fiction and fantasy museum in Turin, Italy
The MuFant, short for Museo del fantastico e della fantascienza, occupies about 1,000 square metres in Turin and holds books, illustrations, posters, models, records, gadgets, stamps and magazines. Its sections cover robots, future cities, aliens, Jules Verne, Italian Rai science-fiction television and Star Trek and Star Wars. A glazed four-shelf case displays small objects including boxes and a book, with a life-size black-costumed figure beside it.
The museum opened in 2009 as Turin's first institution dedicated to science fiction and fantasy. This founding made it a space to preserve how these genres have evolved across literature and cinema.
The museum takes its name from the piazza dedicated to Riccardo Valla, a science fiction critic and writer whose library donation formed the core of the specialised collection. Sections are devoted to Italian proto-science fiction, Rai's science fiction television, robots, future cities, aliens and Jules Verne.
The museum occupies about 1,000 square metres on Piazza Riccardo Valla, with the permanent collection spread across themed sections such as robots, future cities, aliens, Jules Verne, Star Trek and Star Wars. The specialised Riccardo Valla library holds over 20,000 volumes. Workshops include a Videogame Lab and the "Loving the Alien" costume and set-design lab.
The library is named after Riccardo Valla, the science fiction critic and writer who gives the square its name; his bequest, from Gabriella, Carlo and Andrea Valla, supplied its core of pulp magazines and Italian proto-science fiction. The Maurizio Nati fund holds every work of Philip K. Dick translated into Italian plus some originals.
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