![]() Then traffic moves into the museum’s core exhibition – “Stories of Cinema” – which can be found in multiple galleries covering 31,000 square feet on two floors. Visitors entering the Saban Building will walk directly into the Spielberg Family Gallery -what a legendary name to start off with – and be surrounded by a history of moving pictures from the Lumiére brothers’ work in the late Nineteenth Century to the present day. The inaugural schedule of over a hundred screenings and programs can be found on the website. A smaller 288-seat Ted Mann Theater can be used for anything from children’s movie showings to panels of experts on cinema topics. The 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater in the sphere will have daily screenings and can handle all film formats from the oldest to the newest. Best of all there are two state-of-the-art -what else? – theaters. The completed museum contains 300,000 square feet with six stories of space for permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, an education studio and event space. The revamped May store was renamed the Saban Building for generous donors Cheryl and Haim Saban, and a shining glass and concrete spherical addition was constructed to the north, linked by glass bridges to the main building. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop, well-known for their work with cultural institutions, was chosen as architect for the Academy Museum. Marx, the building with its spectacular Streamline Moderne façade was declared a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1992. The main museum structure is the repurposed 1939 May Company department store building on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, opened in 1939 – the same year that The Wizard of Oz was released in a happy coincidence. When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opens on September 30, it reveals a feast of offerings for every type of movie fan from the casual rerun watcher to the consumer of “making of” documentaries. LOS ANGELES – Not far from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the fossil-rich La Brea Tar Pits, there stands a new institution devoted to how cinematic dreams are turned into reality. Aerial shot of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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