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The Academy Museum joins other more established cultural outposts on the Museum Row section of Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, the Craft and Folk Art Museum and the Petersen Automotive Museum), and helps preserve part of Los Angeles' architectural history while adding to it. There was a lot of experimentation and iterating, and conversations, and I think it's brought us to this incredible place.' There is no film museum in the US there's no museum in the US solely devoted to moving making. We needed this much time to create something that is an invention. To start with nothing, just an idea, and to arrive at a privately-funded fully realized project, is not a long time. Kramer also said, 'From the conception in 2011 to opening is ten years. Also standing behind the ribbon are Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President David Rubin and Museum Inclusion Advisory Committee Chair and Producer Effie T.

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To the right of Hudson is Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti who gave a movie title name-dropping speech before the ribbon cutting. That only allowed for more time to build these beautiful exhibitions in a COVID-safe way.'Īcademy Museum director Bill Kramer with Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Chief Executive Dawn Hudson on his right cut the ribbon at the museum opening ceremony. Director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Bill Kramer noted, 'The pandemic required us to move our opening twice because museums were not open in Los Angeles. Originally set to open in 2020, the museum finally opened its doors to the public on Thursday, September 30, 2021.

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The Grand Lobby Gallery and the Fourth Floor Gallery were free to the public, but these have closed now in preparation for the opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The headquarters used to house two galleries which had changing exhibits related to films, filmmaking and film stars.