Skirball Cultural Center
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The Skirball Cultural Center is a facility in Los Angeles, California devoted to Jewish culture and heritage. The center features a museum with regularly-changing exhibitions, film events, and community and cultural programs.
The Skirball's facilities, first opened to the public in 1996, are located in the Santa Monica Mountains, not far from the Getty Museum. The site's unique appearance, the work of Jewish architect Moshe Safdie, stands out among the mountains for drivers commuting the San Diego Freeway and Sepulveda Boulevard through the Sepulveda Pass.
The Skirball Museum predates the Skirball Cultural Center, having been established in 1972 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in L.A. The Museum moved into the Skirball Cultural Center after the center's completion.
[edit] Trivia
The Center is named after philanthropist-couple Jack Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, whose foundation largely funded its construction.
The Skirball is visited by over 400,000 people each year[1].
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- Cinema's Legacy at the Skirball, AFI
- Skirball Foundation pledges $2 million for new chair, January 17, 2003
- Lori Starr named Director, Skirball Museum
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