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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Movie Memorabilia At The Academy Museum, Los Angeles, USA

 




The Academy Museum, Los Angeles, has plenty to inform and entertain both children and adults. 

It starts with a history of films (movies) going way back. 

The interactive exhibits keep you entertained.

I have merged information from different sources in Wikipedia and elsewhere.

Collections

The Academy holds more than 13 million objects including costumes, costume sketches, film reelspostersprops, and screenplays dating back to 1927

Objects in the Museum's collection include:[

Exhibitions

The second and third floors of the museum will feature the opening exhibition "Stories of Cinema". The inaugural temporary collection of the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery is devoted to Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.The exhibition opened on September 30, 2021, and was on view until June 5, 2022. This was the first time Miyazaki’s work was featured in a major retrospective in the United States. The collection also displayed pieces on public view for the first time outside of Japan. The 11,000-square-foot exhibition features more than 300 objects, including original image boards, character designs, storyboards, layouts, backgrounds, posters, and cels. The exhibition’s curators, Jessica Niebel and assistant curator J. Raúl Guzmán worked with Studio Ghibli and the Ghibli Museum in Japan to gather all the materials.

 There are also interactive installations displayed throughout the exhibit, the “Mother Tree,” Skyview, and Magical Forest, to name a few, each inspired by a different Miyazaki Film.


Following that will be an exploration of the history of black cinema through 1971.

Galleries in the museum will be dedicated to a variety of topics. Inaugural galleries will cover:

Within walking distance are two other major museums.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Museum_of_Motion_Pictures#cite_note-28

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/its-oscars-season-and-film-fans-are-going-mad-for-hollywoods-new-museum-l5hmg5ssl

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