The Almería Cinema House is located in the Casa de la Torre, a historic building built in the year 1866 belonging to the Balmas family and that the city council acquired with the aim of creating a museum where the long relationship of the province of Almería with the film world can be told, since it has been the setting for from movies, television series, commercials and music videos on countless occasions. In January 2011 this museum opened. It opened its doors to the public after undergoing a rehabilitation project by architect Ramón Torres and converting it into a modern exhibition space.
The permanent exhibition of the Casa del Cine de Almería tours several rooms dedicated to thefilms that have been filmed in the province since the beginning of the film industry, the actors and actresses who participated in them, the directors, the costumes, props as well as the such as the unmistakable locations in the city, in the Tabernas Desert or in Cabo de Gata. Among others, in this exhibition we can see objects by famous artists such as Sergio Leone, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Antonio Banderas, Claudia Cardinale, Raquel Welch or Penélope Cruz.
This famous home served as the It accommodated numerous celebrities during the filming of some films, such as Clint Eastwood or Brigitte Bardot, but the best-known anecdote occurred when John Lennon stayed there. He stayed in this house for a month between the months of October and November of 1966 while he was filming the film ""How I Won the War"" by Richard Lester and where he recorded He wrote a first version of the song Strawberry Fields Forever, inspired by this place that reminded him of an old orphanage where he used to play when he was a child. Also, over there His wife, Cynthia Lennon and Ringo Starr visited him to celebrate his 26th birthday. birthday; In short, this Almeria museum is, without a doubt, a place for cinema.
Fridays from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. < /p>