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    Photograph: ©Academy Museum FoundationAerial shot of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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    Photograph: Courtesy Joshua White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum FoundationAcademy Awards History gallery, Stories of Cinema 2, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
  4. E.T. at the Academy Museum
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    Photograph: Courtesy Josh White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum FoundationAcademy Museum of Motion Pictures, Saban Building.
  6. May Queen dress from Midsommar
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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Michael Juliano
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Time Out says

The history of moviemaking finally has a home in Los Angeles with the arrival of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Located next to LACMA in the Wilshire May Company buildling and in a new and expanded space designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the museum features four full floors of gallery space, two theaters (including a 1,000-seat space in that giant glassy sphere) a restaurant and a gift shop.

RECOMMENDED: Check out our full guide to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

The collection includes the sorts of cinematic treasures you’d expect from the people who put on the Oscars: the Rosebud sled for Citizen Kane, Dorothy’s ruby red slippers, R2-D2 and C-3PO, the Dude’s robe from The Big Lebowski, the sole surviving shark from Jaws and the flowery May Queen dress from Midsommar, among many others. You’ll also find a revolving set of galleries dedicated to specific creators and industry crafts, plus special exhibitions that are swapped out at least once a year. 

Timed reservations are encouraged (but not required) and available via the museum’s website and smartphone app. Tickets (which include admission to all exhibitions) cost $25 for adults, $19 for seniors (62 and up), $15 for students, and are free for visitors 17 and younger and CA residents with an EBT card. An immersive installation dubbed the Oscars Experience costs an additional $10. Outdoor public areas and the lobby (which includes the small Spielberg Family Gallery) are free to access.

Details

Address
8949 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
90211
Price:
$25, seniors (62 and up) $19, students $15, free for visitors 17 and younder and CA residents with an EBT card; Oscars Experience installation $10
Opening hours:
Mon, Wed–Sun 10am–6pm; closed Tue
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What’s on

Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema

We kind of just take it for granted when we gawk at a screen, but there’s a ton of science and craft behind the use of color in film. This Academy Museum exhibition dives into just that, with more than 150 objects—cameras, costumes, props and film posters—from the 1890s to today. The show’s rainbow-sequence costume gallery—with pieces from Django Unchained, The Shining and the return of Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz—is a visual feast of recognizable cinema relics. But the most eye-catching components come in the hands-on Color Arcade, where you can splash digital paint across a screen or press into the stretchy recreation of Oskar Fischinger’s Lumigraph, a trippy illuminated instrument. “Color in Motion” is broken up into six areas: The exhibition looks at the connection between color, music and movement, like in early dance and animated shorts; decades of color technologies, from Technicolor processes and Disney’s women-led Ink & Paint Department to contemporary digital tools; tinted reels of otherwise-black-and-white silent films; the narrative role of color; and experimental works (the Color Arcade fills that sixth slot). The show debuts alongside “Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema,” a comparatively smaller exhibition in the museum’s central double-height gallery. On the bottom floor, you can watch a supercut of films in the genre, while upstairs features props and artwork from Blade Runner, The Terminator and Ex Machina, plus a restore
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