Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Future museum location at the 1939 Streamline Moderne May Company building

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a future museum in Los Angeles, California, currently under construction by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It had been scheduled to open in 2017, however it got delayed to 2018[1] and is now scheduled to open in 2019.[2][3] The museum will contain over 290,000 square feet (27,000 m2) of galleries, exhibition spaces, movie theaters, educational areas, and special-event spaces.

The Academy Museum will be located next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) campus, in the historic 1939 May Company building on Wilshire Boulevard, which will be extensively expanded and renovated to accommodate the museum. The expansion and architectural plans were designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and innovative contemporary architect Zoltan Pali.

The project is currently led by Kerry Brougher, director of the Academy Museum. Previously, after raising $250 million and moving the project through the City of Los Angeles public approvals process, Bill Kramer, was Managing Director of the Academy Museum, He left the project to become the Vice President of RISD (the Rhode Island School of Design), starting in January 2016.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-academy-museum-opening-date-20151006-story.html
  2. ↑ http://www.oscars.org/museum
  3. ↑ http://deadline.com/2017/02/delayed-academy-movie-museum-tip-toes-into-2019-1201912409/

Coordinates: 34°3′49.06″N 118°21′39.14″W / 34.0636278°N 118.3608722°W / 34.0636278; -118.3608722


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