As the Lumiere Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary today, a new museum dedicated to the earliest days of film is also to be inaugurated.

Under the presidency of director Bertrand Tavernier and general secretary Thierry Fremaux, the Lumiere Museum boasts such important artifacts as the Cinematographe #1, the projector used by the Lumiere brothers when they ran the first film over a hundred years ago.

Among the other pieces of history are an 1894 Edison Kinetoscope and equipment used to shoot the first films from Gaumont, the world's oldest movie studio, and Pathe including Louis Feuillade's Fantomas in 1913.

The Rhone Alpes region has donated conservation materials for the archives which will be housed in the museum. Other film accessories and memorabilia will also be on show along with 900 of the 1600 films made by the Lumiere brothers.

Fremaux and Tavernier are also reportedly considering creating a prize that will bear the name of the famous brothers who are generally considered to be the fathers of cinema.