Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Collections

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is 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 long history of screen practice. There are over 80,000 items in the collection. Holdings include many examples of nineteenth-century panoramas, dioramas, magic lanterns, stereoscopes, peepshows, optical illusions, and early cinema handbills. Artefacts are complemented by printed works relating to nineteenth-century science, technology, domestic leisure and popular entertainment.

The website of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum features a selection of digital images of items from the collections, as well as news and blogs, sound clips and animations from optical toys. 

Visit the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum website to search for diaries in the collections