The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum (formally the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture) is a public museum and an academic research facility on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter in England.
There is a reading room for researchers to access and consult materials from the collection by appointment.
The collection that Douglas put together with his friend Peter Jewell founded[clarification needed] the museum; many other donors have added to the holdings since.
There is a large collection of material on optical media prior to the invention of cinema including holdings on magic lanterns, shadow puppets, panoramas and dioramas, optical illusions and peep shows.
[2] There are also a number of filmmakers' production archives, including Bill Douglas's working papers, the Townley Cooke collection,[3] and the archives of producer/director Don Boyd, and producers Gavrik Losey and James Mackay.