Today, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures introduced preliminary programming plans for its future location in Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile district. The museum, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, will be housed within the 1939 May Company Building on Wilshire Boulevard and a new adjacent structure—a 140-foot-tall glass and steel orb accommodating a 1,000-seat theater and large terrace overlooking the Hollywood hills. Construction on the project began in 2015.
According to Kerry Brougher, director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the concepts for the exhibition spaces were developed from a filmmaker’s perspective, as opposed to a “high-altitude film history look at cinema.”
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