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.
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Collections
The Academy holds more than 13 million objects including costumes, costume sketches, film reels, posters, props, and screenplays dating back to 1927
Objects in the Museum's collection include:[
- Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Ruby slippers
Because of their iconic stature, the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the film are now among the most treasured and valuable film memorabilia in movie history.[ Dorothy actually wore Silver Shoes in the book series, but the color was changed to ruby to take advantage of the new Technicolor process.
Five known pairs of the slippers exist. Another, differently styled pair, not used in the film, was sold at auction by actress Debbie Reynolds for $510,000 (not including the buyer's premium) in June 2011.
- Shirley Temple's tap shoes from The Little Colonel (1935)
- Typewriter used to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)
- The only surviving shark mold from Jaws (1975)[
- Tablets from The Ten Commandments (1956)
- The Aries 1B spaceship model and a space suit worn by Keir Dullea from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The costume of the amphibian man from the Guillermo del Toro’s’The Shape of Water (2017)’’
- From the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial an E.T. Prop is displayed.
- A cape used by Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)[
- The yellow dress worn by Emma Stone in La La Land (2016)
- Pillars named for historical significance in motion picture history including Rita Moreno, Cher, Barbra Streisand, and Hattie McDaniel.
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:
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Climate change
- Black Lives Matter
- Blackface, redface, and yellowface
- Labor relations
- Bruce Lee
- Spike Lee
- #MeToo
- Oscar Micheaux
- Racism and sexism in animation
- Real Women Have Curves (2002)
- Thelma Schoonmaker
Within walking distance are two other major museums.
Useful Websites
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